Dukas
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Long before Walt Disney and composer Paul Dukas, there were stories about magicians and their — usually — overreaching pupils.
From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2017
This emperor of the keyboard has long ventured through outrageously demanding thickets deep in the borderlands of the repertoire, capturing Godowsky and Busoni, Dukas and Alkan.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2015
Paul Dukas understood his brief when, in 1911, he wrote his score for the ballet La Péri.
From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012
Einstein’s secretary, Helen Dukas, was our baby sitter.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2011
It was at this period that I became acquainted with the works of César Franck, Vincent d'Indy, Fauré, Paul Dukas, and Debussy, of whose names I had hardly heard.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
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