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by Ben Hogwood

On this day in 1865 the composer Paul Dukas was born. Dukas is generally known for one work, and it’s a wonderful one – L’apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice), but there are other treats in his small but very well formed body of work, as I discovered on a previous blog in 2014 about his music One of those discoveries is the overture Polyeucte, which you can hear below:

Published post no.2,674 – Wednesday 1 October 2025