Near the end of his life he succeeded Alfred Brunea at the Academie des Beaux-Arts.
Near the end of his life he succeeded Alfred Brunea at the Academie des Beaux-Arts. His minor compositions include Sonnet De Ronsard, for voice and piano, and the overture King Lear, which he composed during his eight years studying under Dubois and Guiraud. It was only with the orchestral overture Polyeucte that he established himself, and he would stay there with work like his "danced poem" La Peri and his major opera Ariane and Bluebeard. FTP, name this French composer best-known for his orchestral scherzo The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Near the end of his life he succeeded Alfred Brunea at the Academie des Beaux-Arts.
Paul {Dukas}