A great-grandson of the painter Constant Dutilleux, a close friend of Eugène Delacroix, a grandson of the composer Julien Koszul and a friend of Gabriel Fauré, Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) was immersed in a rich artistic environment from an early age on. He felt close to the Groupe de la Jeune France, which included Olivier Messiaen. He wrote many orchestral works, but only a few for piano: the Sonate (written between 1946 and 1948), Figures de résonnances, Le Jeu des contraires and a few other s...