Louis Durey

Louis Durey ( born May 27, 1888 in Paris, † July 3, 1979 in St. Tropez) was a French composer.

Life

Durey, son of a merchant, turned to 19 years of music, where he enjoyed patronage of Maurice Ravel. Together with Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre and Georges Auric he was the loose association Les Six - a group of young, yet highly different composers. Durey is never as strongly emerged as his younger colleagues and retired soon again from the group back ( he also failed to cooperate in the jointly composed the ballet " Le Mariés de la Tour Eiffel ") in order to devote himself communist cultural policy. Consequently, he remained largely unknown as a composer.

Back in the early 1920s, he distanced himself from Jean Cocteau, who held the role of a spiritual mentor for the " Six". At the time of the German occupation, he was active in the Resistance and wrote anti-fascist songs. After the Second World War, he was a communist strict observance, wrote little and lived on music criticism in a communist newspaper.

He created orchestral works, chamber music ( string quartets ), stage and film music.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• French composer
• Groupe des Six
• Frenchman
• Born in 1888
• Died in 1979
• Man