His review was published in La Revue Hebdomadaire he later wrote also for Minerva, La Chronique des Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts and Le Courrier Musical. 1890s ĭukas's career as a critic began in 1892 with a review of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Gustav Mahler at Covent Garden in London. After compulsory military service he began a dual career as a composer and a music critic. Disappointed at his failure to win the top prize, he left the Conservatoire in 1889. ĭukas won several prizes, including the second place in the Conservatoire's most prestigious award, the Prix de Rome, for his cantata Velléda in 1888. The manuscript of the latter was rediscovered in the 1990s and the work was performed for the first time in 1995. Two early overtures survive from this period, Goetz de Berlichingen (1883) and Le Roi Lear (1883). Among his fellow students was Claude Debussy, with whom Dukas formed a close friendship. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the end of 1881, aged 16, and studied piano with Georges Mathias, harmony with Théodore Dubois and composition with Ernest Guiraud. Dukas took piano lessons but showed no unusual musical talent until he was 14 when he began to compose while recovering from an illness. When Dukas was five years old, his mother died giving birth to her third child, Marguerite-Lucie.
His father, Jules Dukas, was a banker, and his mother, Eugénie, was a capable pianist. Life and career Early years Dukas's teachers, Georges Mathias (top l.), Théodore Dubois (top r.) and Ernest Guiraud (bottom l.), and Dukas' fellow student Claude Debussyĭukas was born in Paris, the second son in a Jewish family of three children. Later in his life he was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatoire de Paris and the École Normale de Musique his pupils included Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen, Walter Piston, Manuel Ponce, Joaquín Rodrigo and Xian Xinghai. In tandem with his composing career, Dukas worked as a music critic, contributing regular reviews to at least five French journals. His compositions were influenced by composers including Beethoven, Berlioz, Franck, d'Indy and Debussy. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau (for solo piano), and a ballet, La Péri.Īt a time when French musicians were divided into conservative and progressive factions, Dukas adhered to neither but retained the admiration of both. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice ( L'apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. Paul Abraham Dukas ( French: or French: 1 October 1865 – ) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.
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