Hugues Dufourt

born in 1943 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France

Hugues Dufourt

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Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the Spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory.

Dufourt became co-director of the Ensemble l'Itinéraire in 1973 and founded CRISS (Collectif de Recherche Instrumentale et de Synthèse SonoreInstrumental and Sound Synthesis Research Collective) in 1977. It was for CRISS that he composed in 197879 his best-known work, Saturne, for percussion, wind ensemble, and electronicsa work inspired by Erwin Panofsky's analysis of etchings by Albrecht Dürer (Castanet 2001; Pasler 2011, 227).

Many of Dufourt's larger works have been inspired by the paintings of artists as various as Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt, Poussin, Guardi, Goya, and Pollock (Pasler 2011, 198, 227).

References

  • Castanet, Pierre Albert. 2001."Dufourt, Hugues". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
  • Pasler, Jann. 2011. "Hugues Dufourt's 'Manifesto of the Music of Our Times': Narratives Without History in L'Afrique and L'Asie d'après Tiepolo". Perspectives of New Music 49, no. 2 (Summer): 198231.

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