Henri Dutilleux, Mystère et Mémoire des Sons: Entretiens avec Claude Glayman. - INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY TO YOSHIHISA TAIRA

Paris: Belfond. 1993. 8vo. Paperback. 252 pp. With a lengthy inscription on the half title from Dutilleux to his former student, Japanese-born French composer Yoshihisa Taira (1937 - 2005), on the occasion of a visit to Taira's composition class at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, May 1993. A little toned, else fine.

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.

Yoshihisa Taira studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, arriving in France in 1966 and studying at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Jolivet, Henri Dutilleux and Olivier Messiaen. In 1971 he won the Prix Lili Boulanger, in 1974 the Grand Prix de Composition de la SACEM, in 1985 the Prix Florent Schmitt from the Académie des Beaux Arts. Composition lecturer at the École Normale de Musique, his works have been performed by the main institutions and festivals of contemporary music: Royan, Metz, Orleans, Strasburg, Avignon, Tokyo, New York, Darmstadt, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tanglewood etc. (11901)

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