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Maurice Duruflé was born on 11 January, 1902 in Louviers, Eure, France, is a French classical composer and organist (1902–1986). Discover Maurice Duruflé's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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Occupation Composer Organist Professor
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 11 January 1902
Birthday 11 January
Birthplace Louviers, Eure, France
Date of death 16 June, 1986
Died Place Louveciennes, Yvelines, France
Nationality France

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1902

Maurice Gustave Duruflé (11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher.

Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902.

1912

He became a chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School from 1912 to 1918, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling, a pupil of Alexandre Guilmant.

The choral plainsong tradition at Rouen became a strong and lasting influence.

1920

In 1920 Duruflé entered the Conservatoire de Paris, eventually graduating with first prizes in organ with Eugène Gigout (1922), harmony with Jean Gallon (1924), fugue with Georges Caussade (1924), piano accompaniment with César Abel Estyle (1926) and composition with Paul Dukas (1928).

1927

At age 17, upon moving to Paris, he took private organ lessons with Charles Tournemire, whom he assisted at Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris until 1927.

In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame.

1930

In 1930 he won a prize for his Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le "Veni Creator", and in 1936 he won the Prix Blumenthal.

1937

Duruflé and Vierne remained lifelong friends, and Duruflé was at Vierne's side acting as assistant when Vierne died at the console of the Notre-Dame organ on 2 June 1937, even though Duruflé had become titular organist of St-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris in 1929, a position he held for the rest of his life.

1939

In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part.

1941

He had begun composing the work in 1941, following a commission from the Vichy regime.

1943

In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked until 1970; among his pupils were the revered organists Pierre Cochereau, Jean Guillou and Marie-Claire Alain.

1947

In 1947 he completed probably the most famous of his few pieces: the Requiem op. 9, for soloists, choir, organ, and orchestra.

Also in 1947, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-Étienne-du-Mont.

1953

They married on 15 September 1953.

(Duruflé's first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, in 1932, ended in civil divorce in 1947 and was declared null by the Vatican on 23 June 1953.) The couple became a famous and popular organ duo, going on tour together several times throughout the sixties and early seventies.

1954

He was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1954.

1966

He was promoted to an Officier de la Legion d'honneur in 1966.

Duruflé was highly critical of his own compositions.

He particularly disparaged the third and final movement 'Toccata' from his Suite, op. 5, and never recorded it.

He never programmed the Toccata, his Sicilienne or the Prelude or Adagio from Veni Creator.

He published only a handful of works and often continued to edit and change pieces after publication.

For instance, the Toccata from Suite has a completely different ending in the first edition than in the more recent version, and the score to the Fugue sur le nom d'Alain originally indicated accelerando throughout.

The result of this perfectionism is that his music, especially his organ music, tends to be well polished, and is still frequently performed in concerts by organists around the world.

Duruflé and his wife were musically conservative.

1969

In 1969 they attended a "jazz mass" at St-Étienne-du-Mont.

Marie-Madeleine was visibly upset by the experience, and Duruflé called it a scandalous travesty.

1975

Duruflé suffered severe injuries in a car accident on 29 May 1975, and as a result he gave up performing; indeed he was largely confined to his apartment, leaving the service at St-Étienne-du-Mont to his wife Marie-Madeleine (who was also injured in the accident).

1986

He died in a clinic at Louveciennes (near Paris) in 1986, aged 84, never having fully recovered from the accident.