Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century.

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 * We went to the Opera to hear music of the vanguard, Maximilian by Darius Milhaud. We clutched our chair.  But we were hurled out of it by such a hurricane of wrong notes that we found ourselves, half dead, on the stairway, without knowing how we could fall down quite so far.  The composer knows the grammar, the spelling and the language; but he can speak only Esperanto and Volapuk.  It is a work of a Communist traveling salesman.
 * Anonymous reviewer, as quoted in Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1965) by Nicolas Slonimsky, p. 126