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Brian Ferneyhough
Brian Ferneyhough
British composer
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Gérard Grisey
Gérard Grisey
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Steve Reich
Steve Reich
American composer
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Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho
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Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
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Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt
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Fausto Romitelli
Fausto Romitelli
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Georges Aperghis
Georges Aperghis
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George Benjamin
George Benjamin
British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
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Hélène Breschand
Hélène Breschand
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Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
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Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud
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Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Graham Waterhouse
Graham Waterhouse
English composer
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Tōru Takemitsu
Tōru Takemitsu
Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930-1996)
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Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas
Austrian composer
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Terry Riley
Terry Riley
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Jeanne Deroubaix
Jeanne Deroubaix
mezzo-soprano
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Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
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Michel van der Aa
Michel van der Aa
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Clarice Assad
Clarice Assad
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André Jolivet
André Jolivet
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Charles Koechlin
Charles Koechlin
French composer, teacher and writer on music
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Frank Ticheli
Frank Ticheli
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Edison Denisov
Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Éliane Radigue
Éliane Radigue
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Edgard Varèse
Edgard Varèse
French composer
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Paul Méfano
Paul Méfano
French composer
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Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez
Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
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Michael Mantler
Michael Mantler
Austrian musician
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Giacinto Scelsi
Giacinto Scelsi
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Toshio Hosokawa
Toshio Hosokawa
Japanese composer of contemporary classical music
Hugues Dufourt
French composer, philosopher

Hugues Dufourt

Intro
French composer, philosopher
Awards Received
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Music
Hugues Dufourt

Hugues Dufourt (French: [dyfuʁ]) is a French composer and philosopher associated with the spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28, 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory.

Dufourt became co-director of the Ensemble l'Itinéraire in 1973 and founded CRISS (Collectif de Recherche Instrumentale et de Synthèse Sonore—Instrumental and Sound Synthesis Research Collective) in 1977. It was for CRISS that he composed in 1978–79 his best-known work, Saturne, for percussion, wind ensemble, and electronics—a work inspired by Erwin Panofsky's analysis of etchings by Albrecht Dürer. His work Burning Bright (2014) also received five votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music by living composers since 2000.

Many of Dufourt's larger works have been inspired by the paintings of artists as various as Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt, Poussin, Guardi, Goya, and Pollock.