Prof. Dutilleux studied counterpoint, harmony and piano with Victor Gallois at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Douai, where he graduated in 1933. He then studied composition with Henri-Paul Büsser, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon, harmony with Jean Gallon, music history with Maurice Emmanuel, and orchestral conducting with Philippe Gaubert at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris from 1933-38.

Among his numerous honors are the Grand Prix de Rome (1938, for L'anneau du roi [withdrawn]), the Grand Prix National de la Musique (1967, for his entire oeuvre), the Praemium Imperiale from the government of Japan (1994, for his entire oeuvre), the Prix du MIDEM Classique in Cannes (1999, for The Shadows of Time), the Grand Prix de la Presse Musicale Internationale (1999, for his entire oeuvre), and the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis (2005, for his entire oeuvre). In addition, he received the title Grand-Croix de la Légion d'Honneur from the government of France (2004) and is a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique in Brussels, as well as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1981.

He is the subject of the books Henri Dutilleux by René Jacobs (1974), Henri Dutilleux by Pierrette Mari (1974, Éditions Hachette; second edition, 1988, Éditions Auguste Zurfluh), Henri Dutilleux, l'œuvre et le style musical by Daniel Humbert (1986, Champion-Slatkine), Ainsi Dutilleux... by C. Desmarets and J.M. Lhôte (1991, Éditions Miroirs), Henri Dutilleux: his Life and Works by Caroline Potter (1997, Aldershot), and Perception du temps musical chez Henri Dutilleux by Maxime Joos (1999, L'Harmattan). Moreover, a collection of interviews with Claude Glayman was published as Henri Dutilleux, Mystère et mémoire des sons (1993, Éditions Belfond; second edition, 1997, Actes Sud).

Prof. Dutilleux is also active in other positions. He served as choral director at the Opéra de Paris in 1942-43 and worked for Radio France in Paris from 1943-63, where he served as director of music productions from 1945-63.

He taught composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris from 1961-70 and composition as a guest professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 1970-71. He also lectured twice at Tanglewood in 1995 and 1998.

He is married to the pianist Geneviève Joy.

In addition to the works listed below, Prof. Dutilleux composed a radio score in the 1940s and incidental music for four plays in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as several minor orchestral, chamber and vocal works and arrangements of music by Jehan Alain and Albert Roussel.

Alphonse Leduc publishes most of his music, but Éditions Durand publishes some of his older scores and Schott publishes several of his recent works.

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