Gerard Grisey

Gerard Grisey , born with Belfort the June 16th 1946 and died in Paris the November 11th 1998, is a Compositeur French.

Biography

He studies successively with the Academy of Trossingen in Germany (1963-1965), with the Conservatoire of Paris (1965-1972) where he follows in particular the courses of composition of Olivier Messiaen (1968-1972). In parallel, he studies with Henri Dutilleux with the Teacher training school of music of Paris (1968) and attends the seminars of Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis with Darmstadt (1972). Lastly, it is initiated with the electroacoustic with Jean-Etienne Marie (1969) and with the Acoustique with Emile Leipp with the Faculty of Science of Jussieu (1974).

Stock-broker of the Villa Médicis with Rome of 1972 to 1974, it takes part in the creation of the Ensemble the Route; in 1980 he is trainee with IRCAM, then invited by DAAD with Berlin.

Gerard Grisey held of many seminars of musical Composition in Darmstadt, with Freiburg, the IRCAM, Scuola Civica of Milan like in various American universities.

From 1982 to 1986, he teaches with the the University of California of Berkeley. From 1986 with its death on November 11th, 1998, he was professor of composition to the higher national Academy of music of Paris (inter alia students: Magnus Lindberg, Eric Tanguy, François Paris, Jean-Luc Herve, Brice Pauset, Yi Xu, Masakazu Natsuda. Fabien Levy, Petar Klanac, Franck Bedrossian, etc)

Its works were ordered by various international institutions. One finds them with the program of the festivals, the radios and the most famous instrumental formations both in Europe and in the United States.

Works

Among his works, one can quote:

Acoustic Spaces, cycle of six parts for various formations

Prolog for viola (1976)
Periods for seven musicians (1974)
Partial for sixteen or eighteen musicians (1975)
Modulations for thirty-three musicians (1978)
Transitory for full orchestra (1981)
Epilog for four horns soli and full orchestra (1985)

Talea (1986)
the paradoxical Icon (1994)
Temporum Vortex (1996)
Four Songs to cross the Threshold (1998), its last work.

External bonds

Analysis of '' Partiels ''
Partial of Grisey by Philippe Lalitte

One can say that with Partiels , Grisey provides the foundations of what his/her friend Tristan Murail and he even will call later the a few years spectral writing. This novel method is the result of a synergy between the artistic influence of Giacinto Scelsi and the work of musical acoustics undertaken in particular by Emile Leipp to the faculty of Jussieu. This very new way of writing music, relegated to the row of curiosity at the beginning, is very influential today among the young French type-setters of the 21e century.

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