Paul Dukas
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Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His
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Gazette des Beaux-Arts, for which Dukas wrote music criticism
Costume design for Dukas's La Péri by Léon Bakst, 1922
Paul Dukas and students of his composition class at the Paris Conservatoire, 1929. Olivier Messiaen is on the extreme right; Maurice Duruflé stands next to him
Fantasia (1940 film)
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Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sha
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…Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau (for…
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Leopold Stokowski conducted the film's score.
Deems Taylor was the film's Master of Ceremonies, who introduced each segment in live-action interstitial scenes.
Disney acting out a scene in The Sorcerer's Apprentice for Taylor and Stokowski