Editing Maurice Duruflé (section)

==Life and career==
Duruflé was born in [[Louviers]], [[Eure]] in 1902. He attended [[Rouen Cathedral]] Choir School from 1912 to 1918, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling, a pupil of [[Alexandre Guilmant]].<ref name="Grove">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/08407?q=Duruflé&search=quick&pos=2&_start=1|title=Duruflé, Maurice|author=Nicholas Kaye|publisher=Oxford Music Online|work=Grove Music Online|access-date=14 October 2017}}</ref> The choral [[plainsong]] tradition at Rouen became a strong and lasting influence.<ref name="Grove"/> At age 17, upon moving to Paris, he took private organ lessons with [[Charles Tournemire]], whom he assisted at [[Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris]]<ref name="Times1986Jun26">{{cite newspaper The Times|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=hamlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=IF503050152&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Maurice Durufle|department=Obituaries|date=26 June 1986|page=22|issue=62493|access-date=13 October 2017}}</ref> until 1927. In 1920 Duruflé entered the [[Conservatoire de Paris]], graduating with first prizes in organ with [[Eugène Gigout]] (1922), harmony with [[Jean Gallon]] (1924), fugue with [[Georges Caussade]] (1924), piano accompaniment with César Abel Estyle (1926) and composition with [[Paul Dukas]] (1928).<ref name="Grove"/>

In 1927, [[Louis Vierne]] nominated him as his assistant at [[Notre Dame de Paris|Notre-Dame]]. Duruflé and Vierne remained lifelong friends, and Duruflé was at Vierne's side acting as assistant when Vierne died at the console of the Notre-Dame organ on 2 June 1937, even though Duruflé had become titular organist of [[Saint-Étienne-du-Mont|St-Étienne-du-Mont]] in Paris<ref name="Times1986Jun26"/> in 1929, a position he held for the rest of his life. In 1930 he won a prize for his ''Prélude, adagio et choral varié sur le "Veni Creator"'',<ref name="Times1986Jun26"/> and in 1936 he won the [[Prix Blumenthal]].<ref name="durufle">{{cite web|title=Maurice Duruflé|publisher=Answers.com|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/maurice-durufl|access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref> In 1939, he premiered [[Francis Poulenc]]'s [[Organ Concerto in G minor (Poulenc)|Organ Concerto]] (the ''Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor''); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part. In 1943 he became Professor of Harmony at the [[Conservatoire de Paris]],<ref name="Times1986Jun26"/> where he worked until 1970; among his pupils were the revered organists [[Pierre Cochereau]], [[Jean Guillou]] and [[Marie-Claire Alain]].<ref name="Grove"/>

In 1947 he completed probably the most famous of his few pieces: the ''[[Requiem (Duruflé)|Requiem]]'' op. 9, for soloists, choir, organ, and orchestra. He had begun composing the work in 1941, following a commission<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mauricedurufle.com/index.php/excerpts#sixteen |title=Excerpts - Maurice Duruflé: The Man and His Music |publisher=Mauricedurufle.com |access-date=22 November 2015 |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212073102/http://mauricedurufle.com/index.php/excerpts#sixteen |url-status=dead }}</ref> from the [[Vichy France|Vichy regime]]. Also in 1947, [[Marie-Madeleine Duruflé|Marie-Madeleine Chevalier]] became his assistant at St-Étienne-du-Mont. They married on 15 September 1953.<ref name="france-orgue.fr">{{cite web|url=http://www.france-orgue.fr/durufle/index.php?zpg=drf.mmm.mmd |title=Marie-Madeleine DURUFLÉ, biographie |publisher=France-orgue.fr |access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref> (Duruflé's first marriage to Lucette Bousquet, in 1932, ended in civil divorce in 1947 and was [[Declaration of nullity|declared null by the Vatican]] on 23 June 1953.) The couple became a famous and popular organ duo, going on tour together several times throughout the sixties and early seventies.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}}

He was made Chevalier de la [[Legion d'honneur]] in 1954 and was promoted to Officier de la Legion d'honneur in 1966.