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
La Péri (Dukas)
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La Péri is a 1912 ballet in one act by French composer Paul Dukas, originally choreographed by Ivan Clustine and first performed in Paris, about Iskender searching for immortality and his encounter wi
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…Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau (for solo piano), and a ballet, La Péri. At a time when French musicians were divided into conservative and progressive factions, Dukas adhered to neither but retained the admiration of both…
Set by René Piot, 1921.
Sketches for Iskender and the Peri's costumes by Léon Bakst, 1922 and 1911.
Natacha Trouhanova and Alfred Bekefi, 1912.