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Dukas

American  
[dy-ka] / düˈka /

noun

  1. Paul (Abraham) 1865–1935, French composer.


Dukas British  
/ dykɑ /

noun

  1. Paul (pɔl). 1865–1935, French composer best known for the orchestral scherzo The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Degas, Mallarmé, Rodin and Renoir mixed with Paul Dukas and Henri Duparc at the soirées that Ernest Chausson held at his elegant home on the Boulevard de Courcelles.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

His daughter had married an Emperor of Byzantium, Juan Dukas Vatatzés, the famous "Vatacio," when he was fifty and she fourteen.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

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