Dubois, PM :: Les Treteaux [The Trestles]

Les Treteaux [The Trestles]

Dubois, PM

"French composer Pierre-Max Dubois was born in Graulhet, in the Languedoc region of southern France in 1930. At the age of eight, he studied clarinet, harmony and piano at the Conservatoire de Tours. Later, he studied piano with Jean Doyens and composition with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier at the Paris Conservatory. In 1955, he was awarded the Premiere Grand Prix de Rome. Since 1967, Dubois taught analysis and musical culture classes at the Paris Conservatory until 1995, the year he passed away in Rocquencourt, north-central France. Dubois was a prolific composer. The majority of his  compositions were written for woodwinds and include many solo and mixed chamber works... Dubois’s music always contains an amusing and playful sense of style. During an interview, he claimed, '…By nature, I am impulsive, but there is a hidden part of me which is certainly more serious. However, my character incites me to write gay music. I love humor and I have no pretension of stopping the world in its spin.'" - Wei-Lun Chien, 2015