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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (French: L'Apprenti sorcier) is a symphonic poem by the French composer Paul Dukas, completed in 1897. Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name.
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His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia.
His single claim to fame is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which he wrote in 1897. A very methodical (read “painstakingly slow”), highly self-critical musician who destroyed many of his compositions before his death, Dukas considered himself a teacher who composed.
Paul Dukas (born Oct. 1, 1865, Paris, Fr.—died May 17, 1935, Paris) was a French composer whose fame rests on a single orchestral work, the dazzling, ingenious L’Apprenti sorcier (1897; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 20, 2021 · The Sorcerer’s Apprentice premiered in May of 1897 and immediately launched the composer into stardom. Based on a ballad by Goethe that was itself built on much older material, Dukas’ highly descriptive tone poem hardly requires a scenario description today.
Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (1897) is a musical composition based on a poem, of the same name, by 18th-century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe was a product of the later Enlightenment. However, he had a profound impact on the European 19th-century and Romantic culture.
Paul Abraham Dukas was born in Paris on October 1, 1865, and died there during the night of May 17-18, 1935. He composed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in 1897, 100 years after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote the ballad on which it was based.
