There, between 19, he attended the classes of Jean and Noël Gallon (harmony and counterpoint, in which he won joint first prize with the cellist Paul Tortelier), Henri Büsser (composition) and Maurice Emmanuel (history of music).ĭutilleux won the Prix de Rome in 1938 for his cantata L'anneau du roi but did not complete his entire residency in Rome due to the outbreak of World War II. He studied harmony, counterpoint, and piano with Victor Gallois at the Douai Conservatory before leaving for the Conservatoire de Paris. He was also a cousin of the mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul. He was the great-grandson of the painter Constant Dutilleux and grandson of the composer Julien Koszul. Henri Dutilleux was born on 22 January 1916 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire.

He also taught at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, and was twice composer in residence at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. In addition to composing, he worked as the Head of Music Production for Radio France for 18 years. … But his voice, marked by sensuously handled harmony and color, was his own.' ĭutilleux received several major prizes throughout his career, notably the Grand Prix de Rome (1938), International Music Council's International Rostrum of Composers (1955), the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur (2004), the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2005), the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society (2008) and the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music (2011). Between Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez in age, he was little affected by either, though he took an interest in their work. Dutilleux’s position in French music was proudly solitary. In The New York Times, Paul Griffiths wrote, 'Mr. French organist Gaston Litaize also asked Dutilleux many times to compose for the organ, but nothing came from it the two first met in 1938 at the Grand Prix de Rome, which Dutilleux won and at which Litaize finished second.

Works were commissioned from him by such major artists as Charles Munch, George Szell, Mstislav Rostropovich, the Juilliard String Quartet, Isaac Stern, Paul Sacher, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Simon Rattle, Renée Fleming, and Seiji Ozawa. Some of these are regarded as masterpieces of 20th-century classical music. Some of his notable compositions include a piano sonata, two symphonies, the cello concerto Tout un monde lointain… ( A whole distant world), the violin concerto L'arbre des songes ( The tree of dreams), the string quartet Ainsi la nuit ( Thus the night) and a sonatine for flute and piano. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel and Olivier Messiaen, but in an idiosyncratic, individual style. Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux ( French: 22 January 1916 – ) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. Dutilleux in 2004 at the Concours International de Composition Henri Dutilleux

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