Maurice Durufl

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Maurice Durufl, c.1962

Maurice Durufl (French: [dyyfle]; 11 January 1902 16 June 1986) was a

French composer, organist, and teacher.
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1Life and career

2Death

3Other

4Compositions
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4.1Organ solo

4.2Chamber music

4.3Piano solo

4.4Piano for 4 hands

4.5Two pianos

4.6Orchestra works

4.7Choral works

4.8Miscellaneous works

4.9Transcriptions

5References

6Sources

7External links

Life and career[edit]

Durufl was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902. He became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir
School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling. At age 17, upon moving to Paris,
he took private organ lessons withCharles Tournemire, whom he assisted at Basilique SteClotilde, Paris until 1927. In 1920 Durufl entered the Conservatoire de Paris, eventually
graduating with first prizes in organ, harmony, piano accompaniment, and composition. His
harmony professor was Jean Gallon.
In 1927, Louis Vierne nominated him as his assistant at Notre-Dame. Durufl and Vierne
remained lifelong friends, and Durufl was at Vierne's side acting as assistant when Vierne died
at the console of the Notre-Dame organ on June 2, 1937, even though Durufl had become
titular organist of St-tienne-du-Mont in Paris in 1929, a position he held for the rest of his life. In
1936, he won the Prix Blumenthal.[1] In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc'sOrgan
Concerto (the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor); he had advised Poulenc on
the registrations of the organ part. In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at
the Conservatoire de Paris, where he worked until 1970.
In 1947 he completed probably the most famous of his few pieces: the Requiem op. 9, for
soloists, choir, organ, and orchestra. He had begun composing the work in 1941, following a
commission[2] from the Vichy regime. Also in 1947, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his
assistant at St-tienne-du-Mont. They married on 15 September 1953.[3] (Durufl'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.[citation needed]

Death[edit]
Durufl suffered severe injuries in a car accident on 29 May 1975,[3] and as a result he gave up
performing; indeed he was largely confined to his apartment, leaving the service at St-tiennedu-Mont to his wife Marie-Madeleine (who was also injured in the accident). He died
in Louveciennes (near Paris) in 1986, aged 84.

Other[edit]
Durufl was highly critical of his own composition. He published only a handful of works and
often continued to edit and change pieces after publication. For instance, the Toccata from Suite,
op. 5 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.

Compositions[edit]
Organ solo[edit]

Scherzo op. 2 (1926)

Prlude, adagio et choral vari sur le theme du 'Veni

Creator' op. 4 (1930)

Suite op. 5 (1932):

Prlude

Sicilienne

Toccata

Prlude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain op. 7 (1942)

Prlude sur l'introt de l'epiphanie op. 13 (1961)

Fugue sur le thme du Carillon des Heures (helpinfo) de la

Cathdrale de Soissons op. 12 (1962)

Mditation op. posth. (1964)

Lecture vue (unpublished)

Fugue (unpublished)

Lux aeterna (unpublished)

Prlude, rcitatif et variations op. 3 for flute, viola, and piano

(1928)

Triptyque op. 1: Fantaisie sur des thmes grgoriens

(1927/1943, unpublished)

Trois danses op. 6 (1932, piano version by the composer):

Chamber music[edit]

Piano solo[edit]

Divertissement

Danse lente

Tambourin

Piano for 4 hands[edit]

Trois danses op. 6 (1932, transcribed by the composer):

Divertissement

Danse lente

Tambourin

Two pianos[edit]

Trois danses op. 6 (1932, transcribed by the composer):

Divertissement

Danse lente

Tambourin

Orchestra works[edit]

Trois danses op. 6 (1932):

Divertissement

Danse lente

Tambourin

Andante et scherzo op. 8 (1940)

Requiem op. 9 for soloists, choir, orchestra, and organ (1947)

Choral works[edit]

Version with Orchestra (1947)

Version with Organ (1948)

Version with small Orchestra (1961)

Quatre motets sur des thmes grgoriens op. 10 for choir a

cappella (1960):

Ubi caritas et amor

Tota pulchra es

Tu es Petrus

Tantum ergo

Messe Cum jubilo op. 11 for baritone solo, male choir, and
orchestra (1966):

Version with Organ (1967)

Version with Orchestra (1970)

Version with small Orchestra (1972)

Notre Pre op. 14 for unison male choir and organ (1977)

Version for 4-part mixed choir a capella (1978)

Miscellaneous works[edit]

Chant Donn: Hommage Jean Gallon (1953)

Sicilienne from Suite op. 5 for small orchestra (flute, oboe,

clarinet, bassoon, horn, and string quintet, unpublished)

Johann Sebastian Bach: 4 Chorale Preludes for Organ ,

orchestrated 1942-45:

Transcriptions[edit]

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (18 Chorales)

Nun freut euch, lieben Christen gmein BWV 734

O Lamm Gottes unschuldig BWV 656 (18 Chorales)

In dir ist Freude BWV 615 (Orgelbchlein)

Louis Vierne: Soirs trangers op. 56, for violoncello and piano,
orchestrated 1943:

Grenade

Sur le Lman

Venise

Steppe Canadien

Poisson chinois

Louis Vierne: Ballade du dsespr op. 61, pome lyrique for

tenor solo and piano, orchestrated 1943

Maurice Durufl: Requiem op. 9, for voice and piano (1947)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Two Chorales from Cantatas BWV

22 and 147, arranged for organ solo 1952

Louis Vierne: Trois Improvisations for organ (Notre-Dame-deParis, November 1928), transcribed 1954:

Marche piscopale

Mditation

Cortge

Charles Tournemire: Cinq Improvisations for organ (Ste.

Clotilde, Paris, 1930/1931), transcribed 195658:

Petite rapsodie improvise

Cantilne improvise

Improvisation sur le "Te Deum"

Fantaisie-Improvisation sur l'"Ave maris stella"

Choral-Improvisation sur le "Victimae paschali"

Gabriel Faur: Prlude de Pellas et Mlisande , transcribed for

organ solo

Robert Schumann: Lamentation , transcribed for organ solo

References[edit]
1.

Jump up^ "Maurice Durufl". Answers.com. Retrieved 2015-1122.

2.

Jump up^ "Excerpts - Maurice Durufl: The Man and His Music".
Mauricedurufle.com. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

3.

^ Jump up to:a b "Marie-Madeleine DURUFL, biographie". Franceorgue.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-22.

Sources[edit]

External links[edit]

Darasse, Xavier. "Maurice Durufl", in Guide de la musique

d'orgue, edited by Gilles Cantagrel. Paris: Fayard, 1991: 335337.

James E. Frazier, Maurice Durufl: The Man & His Music (The
Boydell Press 2007)

Ronald Ebrecht, ed. Maurice Durufl (19021986): The Last

Impressionist. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 08108-4351-X.

Jrg Abbing. "Maurice Durufl. Aspekte zu Leben und Werk".

Verlag Peter Ewers, 2002. ISBN 3-928243-07-1.

Frdric Blanc. "Maurice Durufl. Souvenirs et autres crits".

ditions Atlantica-Sguier, 2005. ISBN 2-84049-411-6.

Association de Maurice et Marie-Madeleine Durufl

Requiemsurvey.org

Pseudo-poseidonios.net

Musimem.com

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