Dukas
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Seeking the ideal Halloween costume, he finds inspiration not just in the Paul Dukas composition mentioned in the program’s title, but also in passages from other works.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2020
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
Ravel, Chausson, Dukas and Duparc would all, surely, have agreed with Renoir's artistic credo: a work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away.
From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012
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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