Durey Rediscovered: The Unpublished Song Manuscripts of Louis Durey
5/26/2017, 41 Tracks, 1:06:39
Featuring
William Burden
Jocelyn Dueck
Sidney Outlaw
Jesse Blumberg
Adriana Zabala
Louis Durey
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Composer Biography
Louis Durey, born in Paris in 1888, initially pursued a business career, earning a degree from HEC Paris before deciding to become a musician around age twenty.
Compositional Technique
Louis Durey's music, while employing classical harmony, also incorporated atonalism and polytonality, with the emotions to be expressed being the determining factor.
Composer Biography
Louis Durey was a founding member of Les Six, a group of young French composers formed in 1919, though he 'separated' from them in 1921.
Performer Biography
Pianist Jocelyn Dueck is considered the leading expert on Louis Durey's songs in North America, having premiered most of his song cycles over the past decade.
Composer Biography
From 1944 onwards, Louis Durey's music openly expressed collective sentiments like friendship, fraternity among peoples, and yearning for freedom and peace.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Louis Durey's artistic personality emerged with his work Offrande Lyrique, Opus 4, where he was among the first in France to use a musical language that was clearly unconstrained.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Louis Durey defined his work as a continuity that took on various guises, stating, 'I have always written what I felt like writing, according to my mood, my imagination, and my stubborness.'
