8vo. Paperback. 221 pp. With a lengthy inscription on the half title from Dutilleux "à Michel Philippot, dont les chemins ont souvent croisé les miens, depuis l'époque lointaine de nos longues veillées dans les studios de l'O.R.T.F." ("whose paths have often crossed mine, ever since the distant era of our long evenings spent in the ORTF studios") and signed additionally by the author on the title with "vive sympathie musicale et d'amitié fidèle" to  Anna-Stella and  Michel Philippot. Light wear to corners, else fine. 

An interesting association copy, inscribed to the French composer, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator Michel Paul Philippot. In 1949 he began a career at ORTF as a music producer and in 1959 became assistant to Pierre Schaeffer in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales, later working under Henri Barraud at the radio station France Culture. From 1964 to 1972 he was in charge of music programs, then technical adviser to the Director General of Radio France and to the President of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA).  His honors include the Grand Prix national de la musique (1987), and the presidency of the Académie Charles Cros.

Recognized as one of the great composers of his generation, Henri Dutilleux was well known not only for his individualism and independence of position, but for his discretion and reserve in matters concerning his life and music. During the course of the wide-ranging and penetrating interviews with the French writer and journalist Claude Glayman, here published in the form of conversations, he aired for the first time many of his personal views concerning his family background, artistic development, training, and career, revealing much about his approach to composition and the influences on his musical style.