{"product_id":"9781782048770","title":"Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music","description":"\u003ci\u003eMaurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music\u003c\/i\u003e is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any language. James E. Frazier traces Duruflé's musical training, his studies with Tournemire and Vierne, and his career as an organist, church musician, composer, recitalist, Conservatoire professor, and orchestral musician. Frazier also examines thecareer and contributions of Duruflé's wife, the formidable organist Marie-Madeleine Duruflé-Chevalier.\u003cbr\u003e Duruflé brought the church's unique language of plainsong into a compelling liaison with thesecular harmonies of the modern French school (as typified by Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas) in works for his own instrument and in his widely loved masterpiece, the \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e Op. 9 for soloists, chorus, organ, and orchestra.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the accounts of those who knew Duruflé personally as well as on Frazier's own detailed research, \u003ci\u003eMaurice Duruflé\u003c\/i\u003e offers a broad sketch of this modestand elusive man, widely recognized today for having created some of the greatest works in the organ repertory -- and the masterful \u003ci\u003eRequiem\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  James E. Frazier is organist and Directorof Music at the Episcopal Church of Saint John the Evangelist in Saint Paul, Minnesota.","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157357150448,"sku":"9781782048770","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782048770_p0.jpg?v=1763718272","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782048770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}