In addition-as well as being an organist, composer and pedagogue-Grunenwald was also known as an architect, having studied for a diploma in architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris concurrently with his studies in music at the Paris Conservatoire.īorn in Cran-Gevrier, a town near Annecy in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grunenwald studied with Ludovic Breitner, a pupil of Franz Liszt, from 1922. While there are some similarities between the outputs of Duruflé and Grunenwald-with works for organ and choir dominating-a considerable amount of film music composed by Grunenwald, mainly during the 1940s and 50s, notably separates the two composers. Despite this fact Duruflé is far more revered, having composed one of the most enduring choral works of the twentieth-century in the form of his Requiem Op 9. Both composers trained and worked as organists through their entire careers and, while neither was particularly prolific in terms of their compositional output, more music remains from the pen of Grunenwald than that of Duruflé.

The twentieth-century French composers Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald (1911-1982) were relatively close contemporaries as well as important figures on the musical scene of post-war Paris.

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