Louis Durey
Louis Durey (* Paris, the May 27th 1888 - † Saint-Tropez the July 3rd 1979) is a Compositeur French.
Biography
Resulting from the Parisian middle-class, he discovered the musical universe after having listened to Claude Debussy and his Pelléas and Mélisande . Its formation was primarily autodidact. Its work was discovered by Maurice Ravel in 1918 during a concert.
In 1917, with Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger and Erik Satie, it founded the group Nouveaux young people which will become thereafter the group of the Six of which it became the elder one. In 1921, it however did not take part in the collective writing of the music for “the Grooms of the tower Eiffel” of Jean Cocteau thus signing his effective separation with the group and the end of this last, which completed to dissociate in 1924. It remained a few years with Saint-Tropez where it Maria and composed her single opera: the Occasion in 1923. In the middle of the years 1930, it joined the French Communist party and took an active part in the resistance during the Second world war. During this period, it did an important work musicologic of reconstitution of old songs of Clément Janequin, Orlando Lassus and other type-setters. He collaborated in the post-war period with the newspaper Humanity as a musical Critique.
Its musical work comprises 116 numbers of opus, concerning all the kinds, but more the music choral society. He wrote symphonic musics relatively little.
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