by Claude Desmarets and Jean-Marie Lhôte (1991, Éditions des Miroirs), Henri Dutilleux: his Life and Works by Caroline Potter (1997, Ashgate Publishing), Perception du temps musical chez Henri Dutilleux by Maxime Joos (1999, Éditions L'Harmattan), and Henri Dutilleux, ou la musique des songes by Jeremy Thurlow (2006, translated by Frédérique Aït-Touati, Millénaire III). He is the subject of the books Henri Dutilleux by René Jacobs (1974), Henri Dutilleux by Pierrette Mari (1974, Hachette Livre second edition, 1988, Éditions Auguste Zurfluh), Henri Dutilleux, l'uvre et le style musical by Daniel Humbert (1986, Éditions Slatkine), Ainsi Dutilleux.
In addition, he received the title Grand-Croix de la Légion d'Honneur from the government of France (2003), was a member of the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique in Brussels and was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1981. He then studied composition with Henri-Paul Büsser, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon, harmony with Jean Gallon, music history with Maurice Emmanuel, and orchestral conducting with Philippe Gaubert at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from 1933–38.Īmong his honours were the Grand Prix de Rome (1938, for L'Anneau du roi ), the Grand Prix National de la Musique (1967, for his uvre), the Praemium Imperiale in Music in Japan (1994, for his uvre), the Prix du MIDEM Classique in Cannes (1999, for The Shadows of Time), the Grand Prix de la Presse Musicale Internationale (1999, for his uvre), the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis (2005, for his uvre), and the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music in New York, New York (2012, for his uvre). Dutilleux studied counterpoint, harmony and piano with Victor Gallois at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Douai, where he graduated in 1933. , Paris).įrench composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world.
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