Milhaud, Darius M Composers Composition

Milhaud, Darius M Composers Composition

Milhaud, Darius

French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), a member of Les Six, was influenced by American jazz and popular Brazilian music: ragtime, maxixe, samba, and tango. He was a proponent of polytonality and one of the most prolific composers of the century. He wrote more than 400 works, including 14 concertos, 18 string quartets, 8 operas, 10 ballets, 7 cantatas, 14 sonatas, 8 symphonies, and other works.

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- Includes many scores, books, recordings, and other related materials.
- Brief biographical sketch, caricature, summaries of stage works and orchestral, vocal and choral, chamber, and piano music with Naxos discography.
- Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Complete files offered in MP3 and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists.
- Picture of a postage stamp issued to commemorate his many works with Biblical and Jewish themes, including the opera "David."
- Technical and aesthetic analysis of the work by Sherman Friedland.
- Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays.
- List of vocal works and links to non-copyrighted texts, some with English translations. From the Lied and Art Song Texts Page.
- Article on Nazi theft of cultural treasures including everything in Milhoud's apartment.

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