MILHAUD, Darius
b Aix-en-Provence, 4 September 1892
d Geneva, 22 June 1974, aged eighty-one

By the time he entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of seventeen he was already an accomplished violinist and organist, and a developing composer. He went to Brazil from 1917 to 1918, and afterwards made two visits to the USA. In 1940 he took up an appointment at Mills College, Oakland, California, but after World War II returned to France, becoming professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory in 1947. Despite severe arthritis he remained active for the rest of his life.

1910-15 (18-23)

La brebis égarée, opera

1911 (19)

Violin Sonata

1912 (20)

String Quartet No 1 in A minor

1913-14 (21-2)

Suite Symphonique No 1

1914 (22)

Sonata for two violins and piano

Printemps, for violin and piano

String Quartet No 2, (atonal)

(1914-15)

1916 (24)

String Quartet No 3

1917 (25)

Symphony No 1

for small orchestra, Le Printemps

1918 (26)

Symphony No 2 for small orchestra, Pastorale

Sonata for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano

L'homme et son désir, ballet

String Quartet No 4

1919 (27)

Suite Symphonique No 2, Protée

Machines agricoles, six pastoral songs for middle voice and instruments

1g20 (28)

Le boeuf sur le toit, ballet

Ballade, for piano and orchestra

Five Studies for piano and orchestra

Sérénade (1920-1)

Printemps, six piano pieces

String Quartet No 5

1921 (29)

Saudades de Brasil, dance suite

Symphony No 3 for small orchestra, Serénade

Symphony No 4 for strings, Ouverture, Choral, Etude

1922 (30)

Symphony No 5 for small wind orchestra

La creation du monde, ballet, using jazz idiom (1922-3)

Three Rag-Caprices

String Quartet No 6

1923 (31)

Symphony No 6 for soprano, contralto, tenor, bass, oboe and cello

1924 (32)

Les malheurs d'Orphee, opera

Esther de Carpentras, comic opera (1924-5)

Le Train Bleu, ballet

1925 (33)

String Quartet No 7

Deux Hymnes

1926 (34)

Le pauvre matelot, opera

1927 (35)

Violin Concerto No 1

Carnival of Aix, for piano and orchestra

1928 (36)

Christophe Columb, opera (revised 1956)

Cantate pour louer le Seigneur

1929 (37)

Viola Concerto

Concerto for percussion and small orchestra

1930 (38)

Maximilien, opera

1932 (40)

String Quartet No 8

1933 (41)

Piano Concerto No 1

1935 (43)

Cello Concerto No 1

String Quartet No 9

1936 (44)

Suite provencale

1937 (45)

Cantate de la paix

1938 (46)

Medee, opera

1939 (47)

Symphony No 1 for full orchestra

King Renes Chimney, for wind quartet

1940 (48)

String Quartet No 10, Birthday Quartet

1941 (49)

Piano Concerto No 2

Clarinet Concerto

Concerto for two pianos

Four Sketches

1942 (50)

String Quartet No 11

1943 (51)

Bolivar, opera

1944 (52)

Symphony No 2 for full orchestra

Jeux de printemps

Suite francaise

1945 (53)

The Bells, ballet

Cello Concerto No 2

String Quartet No 12, In Memory of Fauré

1946 (54)

Symphony No 3 for full orchestra and chorus, Hymnus Ambrosianus

Piano Concerto No 3

Violin Concerto No 2

String Quartet No 13

1947 (55)

Symphony, 1848

Concerto for marimba and vibraphone

1949 (57)

Piano Concerto No 4

String Quartets No 14 and 15, to be played together as octet, or separately

1951 (59)

The Seven-branched Candelabra, for piano

1953 (61)

David, opera

1954 (62)

Harp Concerto

1955 (63)

Symphonies No 5 and 6

1956 (64)

Symphony No 7

1957 (65)

Symphony No 8, Rhodanienne

Oboe Concerto

Aspen Serenade

1958 (66)

Violin Concerto No 3, Concerto royal

1960 (68)

Symphony No 10 (possibly 1960)

Symphony No 11

1962 (70)

Symphony No 12

1963 (71)

Pacem in terris, for chorus and orchestra

1964 (72)

La mere coupable, opera (1964-5)

String Septet

Harpsichord concerto

1965 (73)

Music for Boston, for orchestra

Music for Prague, for orchestra

Elegie pour Pierre, for viola and percussion

Cantate de Job, for chorus and organ

1966 (74)

Jerusalem a Carpentras, incidental music

Music for Indiana, for orchestra

Music for Lisbon, for orchestra

Music for New Orleans, for orchestra

Piano Quintet

1967 (75)

Promenade Concert for orchestra

1968 (76)

Tobie et Sarah, incidental music

Musique pour l'univers Claudélien, for orchestra

Piano Trio

1968-9 (76-7)

Music for Graz, for orchestra

1969 (77)

Suite in G for orchestra

Music for Ars Nova, for orchestra

Stanford Serenade, for chamber orchestra

1970 (78)

St Louis, roi de France, opera

1971 (79)

Music for San Francisco, for orchestra

Hommage a Stravinsky

Harp Sonata

1971-2 (79-80)

Promesse de Dieu, for unaccompanied chorus

1972 (80)

Ode pour Jerusalem, for orchestra

Les Momies d'Egypte, for unaccompanied chorus

Ani Maamin, for chorus and orchestra