Biography
Paul Dukas was born on 1 October 1865 in Paris and studied at the Paris Conservatoire from 1882 to 1890, alongside fellow student Claude Debussy; in 1888 he won the second Prix de Rome. Alongside composing, he worked for decades as a music critic for several French journals. From 1928 he taught composition at the Paris Conservatoire, succeeding Charles-Marie Widor, with pupils including Olivier Messiaen and Joaquín Rodrigo. Marked by extreme self-criticism, Dukas destroyed numerous compositions during the last two decades of his life, so that alongside the popular orchestral showpiece "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" only a small but weighty body of work survives, including the opera "Ariane et Barbe-bleue" and the ballet "La Péri". He died on 17 May 1935 in Paris.
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