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Louis Durey was born in Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, on May 27th, 1888, to a French bourgeois family in the printing industry.

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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 vo

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Louis Durey (1888-1979)

1967 78-79 10:00

Divertissement, Op. 107 (for oboe, clarinet and bassoon)

1925 36-37 9:00

Sonatine, Op. 25

1917 28-29

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 10

1922 33-34

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 19

1928 39-40

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 39

1968 79-80

Nicolios et la flûte, Op. 111 (for flute and harp)

1965 76-77

Octophonies, Op. 106a (for 3 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and bass)

1963 74-75

Les soirées de Valfère for Wind Quintet, Op. 96

1955 66-67

Trio-Sérénade 'à la mémoire de Béla Bartók' for String Trio, Op. 79

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Louis Durey

French composer (1888–1979)

Louis Edmond Durey (French:[dyʁɛ]; 27 May 1888 – 3 July 1979)^[1] was a French composer. He was among the Les Six group of composers.

Life

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. His L'Offrande Lyrique (1914) has been called the first piece of French twelve-tone music.^[2] The first of his works 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. This joint project was L'Album des Six. D