He wrote just 14 promulgated works, a best known of which is his Requiem, Op 9.

As a schoolboy, he attended Rouen Cathedral Choir School in which he was the chorister, & where he exposed piano & organ. Once he was Seventeen he attend Paris, & deliberate organ sustaining Charles Tournemire, and at Eighteen he entered a Paris Conservatory, where he exposed composition under Charles-Marie Widor and Paul Dukas and organ with Eugene Gigout.

Between 1922 & 1928 he won many prizes, including prizes for composition, soft accompaniment, harmony & organ. Inside 1927 he became an helper to Louis Vierne at Notre Dame. Vierne cherished Duruflé to succeed him however a authorities were somewhat displeased using Vierne & appointed Leonce de Saint-Martin instead. Even so it was Duruflé world health organization was alongside Vierne at a console around Notre Dame whenever Vierne died when you took his 1750th recital in the church.

Within 1929 he won a Paris "Friends of the organ" prize, for organ & improvisation, & he found a position of organist at a church of St-Etienne-du-Mont, Paris. His Op Threesome. piece Prelude, Recitative & Variations for flute, viola & piano was given its 1st performance by Marcel Moyse, Maurice Vieux and Jean Doyen.

He gave a premiere of Poulenc's Organ Concerto under Roger Désormière in Paris in 1939. He experienced earliest advised Poulenc on the registration of the solo a portion.

From either 1942 he assisted Marcel Dupré in organ classes at the Paris Conservatory.

Around 1947 he wrote his best known piece, his Requiem Op. Nina from carolina, for choir, soloists & orchestra, which was given its number 1 performance by Paul Paray. A Requiem has a select few similarities sustaining Fauré's, though it also shows a hard influence of Gregorian chant and Renaissance music. For instance, a opening theme within Introit-Kyrie is borrowed from either Duarte Lobo's Missa pro defunctis. A piece was reworked into 2 more versions, & currently is around tercet versions—the single for fully orchestra, a single for decreased orchestra, & a version sustaining organ (+ an obbligato solo for cello in the "Pie Jesu"). His Messe "Cum Jubilo" likewise lives inside troika such versions.

A organist Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-Etienne-du-Mont inside 1947. He married her within 1953 at a age of 51. It shared a position of organist at St-Etienne-du-Mont thenceforth.

He gave higher performing when the car accident around 1975.

His go promulgated function (1977) was the setting of the Lord's Prayer for 4 mixed voices.

Although he is best known for his Requiem, it must non become forgotten that he was a distinguished organist, & he gave many performances, including the premieres of Louis Vierne's Sixth Symphony (1935) & Poulenc's organ concerto. He composed "Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain" withwithin memory of Jehan Alain, an organist flushed in action in 1940.

He too mass produced many recordings, including his have Requiem, however likewise Poulenc's organ concerto, Saint-Saëns's Tertiary Symphony, Charpentier's Midnight Mass for Christmas, and performed within recordings of Faure's Requiem, & Honegger's Christmas Cantata and King David. He as well mass produced recordings of Bach's organ music, some of the two sustaining his married woman Marie-Madeleine, besides more recordings of organ music including works by Tournemire & Vierne & more composers.

He died inside Paris around 1986.

List of Works

Op. Single, Tryptique Op. Deuce, Scherzo (1926) Op. Trine, Prélude, Récitatif et Variations for flute, viola, & piano (1928) Op. Iv, Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié tyre lupus erythematosus thème du "Veni Creator" for organ & baritone choir (1930) Op. Five, Suite (1933) Op. Sextuplet, Trois Danses (1937) Op. Seven, ''Prélude et Fugue tyre lupus erythematosus nom 500'Alain (1940)/(1942)? Op. Viii, Andante et scherzo (1940) Op. Nina from carolina, Requiem for soloists, chorus, orchestra, & organ (1947) (besides intended for chamber orchestra sustaining organ, & organ solo) Op. Tenner, Quatre Motets tyre des thèmes grégoriens a cappella SATB chorus, (1960) Op. Xi, Messe "Cum Jubilo", baritone solo, baritone choir, orchestrthe, & organ, (1966) (too intended for chamber orchestrthe by having organ, & organ solo; a baritone solo can be split between a baritone & a tenor) Op. Xii, Fugue tyre lupus erythematosus carillon des heures first state la cathedral diamond state Soissons (1962) Op. Xiii, Prelude tyre l'introit diamond state 50'epiphanie (1960) Op. Xiv, Notre Père'' respire SATB chorus, (1976) (also is when unison chorus + organ)

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