My happy life / Darius Milhaud ; translated from the French by Donald Evans and Christopher Palmer ; with an introductory essay by Christopher Palmer.
| Author/creator |
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974 |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 1994. |
| Description | 285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Ma vie heureuse. English |
| Contents | Introduction. Darius Milhaud: poet of Provence / Christopher Palmer -- Origins -- My childhood -- Leo and Armand -- Paris 1909-1912 -- The visit to Francis Jammes -- No 5 Rue Gaillard -- The Syndicate -- Hellerau -- The 1913-1914 season -- The war -- Brazil -- A difficult voyage -- Paris -- Scandals -- My first encounter with jazz -- 'Furniture music' and catalogue music -- Paul Collaer and Jean Wiener -- United States 1922 -- Austria; Poland; Holland; Italy -- Ballets -- Cross currents, from Le Roi David to the School of Arcueil -- Les Malheurs d'Orphee and Esther de Carpentras -- The death of Erik Satie -- Travels -- Persistence of a theme -- Miniature opera and grand opera -- Visits -- Under the shadow of illness -- Congresses, festivals, the 'Serenade' and the 'Triton' -- Music for theatre and the cinema -- Around the exhibition -- The pre-war years -- The war -- The United States 1940-1947 -- Between two continents -- 1952-1956 -- 1956-1962 -- Seventy -- Friends and nuisances -- Ecumenical matters -- Music for -- From California to Geneva. |
| Abstract | Darius Milhaud, born in Provence in 1892, was one of the major composers of the twentieth century and also one of its most prodigious. Over 450 of his works have been catalogued (and listed in this volume), including operas, large and small, eighteen string quartets, twelve symphonies and thirty concertos, as well as such popular classics as Le Boeuf sur le toit, La Creation du monde, Suite provencal and the Suite francaise. In this book, completed in 1972, two years before the composer's death, Milhaud tells the full story of his own personal life and artistic development. A secretary to the playwright Paul Claudel, a close friend of Satie, Cocteau and Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud was also a member, along with Georges Auric and Arthur Honneger, of the scandalous group of young French composers known simply as 'les Six.' While often regarded during his lifetime as an open-minded musician of wide tastes whose music spanned many styles from avant-garde to jazz, he is revealed here as a thinker of note and a graceful writer. He depicts with great generosity of feeling the revolution that modern music has undergone this century and his own role in it, giving a clear account of his attitude towards his work and that of his fellow composers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, work list (pages 261-272), and indexes. |
| LCCN | 94009018 |
| ISBN | 0714529575 |
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