Pierre-Max Dubois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French composer
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Place of Birth: Graulhet, Occitania, France
About Pierre-Max Dubois
- Pierre Max Dubois (1 March 1930 – 29 August 1995) was a French composer of classical music.
- He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected.
- He brought the ideas of Les Six, of which his instructor was a member, into the mid-1900s.
- This group called for a fresh artistic perspective on music.
- The music of Dubois is characteristically light hearted with interesting harmonic and melodic textures.He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1955.
- Most of his works are for woodwinds, especially for saxophone.
- His Quartet for Saxophones in F premiered in 1962.
- Another of his works is the 'Pieces characteristiques en forme de suite', written for Alto Saxophone with piano accompaniment.
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