Talk:Darius Milhaud

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In this article I learnd: Milhaud "left Germany in 1939 and emigrated to America in 1940." The german version of this article - wich is much more detailed - does not mention a visit of Milhaud in Germany:

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1912 wird er mit dem Dichter Paul Claudel bekannt gemacht, mit dem ihn eine lebenslange Freundschaft und künstlerische Zusammenarbeit verbinden wird. Als Claudel 1916 als französischer Botschafter in die brasilianische Hauptstadt Rio de Janeiro entsandt wird, begleitet ihn Milhaud, vom Dienst im Ersten Weltkrieg befreit, als sein Attaché nach Südamerika. Dort lernt er die brasilianische Folklore und Popularmusik kennen, was seine Musik in den folgenden Jahren stark beeinflussen wird.

1918 kehrt er nach Frankreich zurück. Er hat Kontakt mit dem Kreis um Jean Cocteau und Erik Satie und gehört schließlich zur Groupe des Six. Seine Kompositionen bringen ihm erste Erfolge, aber auch Skandale ein.

1925 heiratet er seine Kusine Madeleine.

Nach Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs emigriert Milhaud mit seiner Frau in die USA und wird am Mills College in Oakland Lehrer für Komposition (bis 1971). Nach Ende des Krieges leitet er zusätzlich auch eine Kompositionklasse am Konservatorium in Paris (bis 1972). Er unterrichtet in der folgenden Zeit jährlich wechselnd auf beiden Kontinenten. Seinen Unterricht besuchen so unterschiedliche Künstler wie der Jazzmusiker Dave Brubeck, der Minimalist Steve Reich, der Sinfoniker Allan Pettersson und die Avantgardisten Karlheinz Stockhausen und Iannis Xenakis.

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Ho can explain the diference?

--WAF er 23:22, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I suppose, the english version intended to express, that the cause of Milhaud's emigration from France was Germany with it's begining world war II.

--85.72.43.195 02:07, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC) (it's me --WAF er 02:10, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yes: one dimension

but may be Milhaud felt the deadly peril of the Hitler-regime for all Jews in Europe.ko

Pronounciation

I seem to recall this is pronounced "mee-yo", but can't pull up an acceptible set of phonetic characters and am anyway not an expert in such matters. Could a native speaker or other authority put a phonetic pronounciation on the main page, so we don't have a generation talking about some character named "mill-hawd"? (Thanks...) -- Metahacker 03:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

the article also needs expanding

Jumping from 1922 to 1940 without mentioning ANYTHING is not doing Milhaud justice. If nobody else adds some more material, I'll try to get to this after I work on the Les Six article. Musikfabrik 12:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I recently improved the chamber music list on the bottom and will eventually follow suit with other categories such as piano, organ, two-piano works, and concertos. Benzbooks 11 November 2008

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:01, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

famous students

...Dave Brubeck arguably became Milhaud's most famous student...

burt bacharach is more famous than dave brubeck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.76.66 (talk) 07:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Adventures of Don Quixote

I'm trying to sort out the story of who was commissioned to write songs for Feodor Chaliapin to sing in Adventures of Don Quixote (1932). The usual version is that Maurice Ravel and Jacques Ibert were the only serious contenders. But the talk page goes into some detail of various theories, including one that Darius Milhaud, Marcel Delannoy and Manuel de Falla were also commissioned; yet I can find no evidence that these 3 ever started work on their commissions, so it may be that they were considered but never formally commissioned. Any clarification of this would be welcome. -- JackofOz (talk) 23:05, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

"... whom Milhaud famously told never to apologize for writing a pretty melody."

It's a lovely story, but it just doesn't seem to be verifiable.
One might expect is to be included in Milhaud's article in the French language Wikipédia, but it isn't, even as superseded content.
Searched for the phrase in whole and in parts, in English and in French, but all the relevant hits were either quoted from this article, or quoting from pages that quoted the article.
All that said, please prove me wrong; I want the story to be true.
--Shirt58 (talk) 11:24, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Well-spotted! "Famously" is just another variation on weasel wording. I agree that this is such a good story that it ought to be true, but Wikipedia requires more than this. Thanks for calling this to my attention. Since you have already made an online search, I will see what I can find offline.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 20:34, 28 November 2009 (UTC)