Henri dutilleux biography
Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux was a French composer of late 20th-century classical music.!
Dutilleux was born into a creative family that had produced painters and musicians.
(b. 22 January 1916, Angers – d. 22 May 2013, Paris).
French composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world.
Mr. Dutilleux studied counterpoint, harmony and piano with Victor Gallois at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Douai, where he graduated in 1933.
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.
Among his honours were the Grand Prix de Rome (1938, for L'Anneau du roi [withdrawn]), the Grand Prix National de la Musique (1967, for his uvre), the Praemium Imperiale in Music in Japan (1994, for his uvre), the Prix du MIDEM Classique in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