Henri Dutilleux: Music - Mystery and Memory: Conversations with Claude Glayman

Born in 1916, Henri Dutilleux is one of France?s leading composers, enjoying an international reputation for his beautifully crafted works. This is the first translation into English of a series of interviews between Dutilleux and the French writer and journalist Claude Glayman which took place in 1996. Dutilleux discusses aspects of his life including his early training at the Paris Conservatoire, the German occupation of France and the time that he spent in the United States. The interviews reveal much about his music and his approach to composition, as well as the influences on his musical style.

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The portrait of Chopin
An anxious child
Of bells and belfries
Paris. The Conservatoire - 'artists' entrance'
In the style of ...; Interlude at the Villa Medici
From the occupation to the liberation
In search of an aesthetic
Geneviève Joy
Pelléas in September 1940
With Grémillon, Fano and Pialat
Opus 1
French radio - first symphony
Serialism: historical necessity or terrorism?
Les ballet de Paris - Le Loup
On Jean Cassou
'Le Double', via Münch
Memory and not leitmotif
Nalraux as music director
Métaboles for George Szell
May 1968
Tout un monde lointain
On the name 'Sacher'
Aren't the notes enough?
Nocturnes - timbres, espace, mouvement
Ainsi la nuit - the economy of the string quartet
Mystère de l'instant
Festivals
L'arbre des songes
Le jeu des contraires and subsequent works
Twenty-four strings and a cymbalom
Against the tide or unclassifiable?
Science and music
French music and the outside world

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