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Louis Durey
12+ albums
frenchcontemporary classical20th CenturyClassicalles six
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Louis Durey (27 May 1888 – 3 July 1979) was a French composer. Louis Durey was born in Paris, the son of a local businessman. It was not until he was nineteen years old that he chose to pursue a musical career after hearing a performance of a Claude Debussy work. As a composer he was primarily self-taught. From the beginning, choral music was of great importance in Durey’s productivity. The first work to gain recognition in the music world was for a piano duet titled Carillons. At a 1918 concert this work attracted the interest of Maurice Ravel, who recommended him to his publisher. Durey communicated with his colleague, Darius Milhaud, and asked him to contribute a piano piece that would bring together the six composers who, in 1920 were dubbed Les six. Despite the acclaim they received, Durey did not participate in the group's 1921 collaborative work Les mariés de la tour Eiffel, a decision which was a source of great irritation to Jean Cocteau. After the Les six period, Durey continued with his career. Never feeling the need to belong to the musical establishment, he voiced his growing left-wing ideals that put him in an artistic isolation that lasted for the rest of his life. Following the break with Cocteau, Durey withdrew to the south of France to work at the home he owned in St Tropez. In addition to chamber music, at Saint-Tropez he wrote his only opera, L'occasion. In 1929, he married Anne Grangeon and moved back to Paris the following year. In the mid-thirties h
top songs
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6 pièces de l'automne 53, Op. 75: No. 2, Bien modéré
2582Romance sans paroles, Op. 21
2003L'Album des Six: II. Romance sans Paroles, Op. 21
1014Six pièces de l'automne 53, Op. 75: No. 2, Bien modéré
1005Sonatine: Assez anime
706Nocturne, Op. 40
6472 Pieces for Piano 4 Hands, Op. 7: I. Carillons
568Le printemps au fond de la mer (1953 recording)
559Le printemps au fond de la mer - 1953 recording
5010Deux pièces, Op. 7: No. 1, Carillons
49albums
Durey: Piano Pieces, Op. 7, 21, 26, 29, 40 & 75
Louis Durey: Pièces pour piano
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L'Album des Six
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Bucoliques: French Music III
Le Groupe des Six: Selected Works 1915-1945
Durey Rediscovered: The Unpublished Song Manuscripts of Louis Durey
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Cocteau Et La Musique
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Romance sans paroles, Op. 21
Honegger, A.: Cello Sonatina / Poulenc, F.: Cello Sonata / Milhaud, D.: Cello Sonata, Op. 377 (Chamber Music of the Groupe Des Six)
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Desire Unbound - Music of Surrealism
Durey: Mélodies
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A Dancer's Dream: Two Works by Stravinsky