Marcel Landowski

Marcel Landowski is a Compositeur French born the February 18th 1915 with Pont-l'Abbé (Finistere) and dead the December 23rd 1999 with Paris.

Wire of the Sculptor of Polish origin Paul Landowski and by its mother, great-grandson of the type-setter Henri Vieuxtemps, it shows very young person obvious provisions for the music and takes piano lessons with Marguerite Length. It enters to the Conservatoire of Paris in 1935 and works the direction of orchestra with Pierre Monteux. Another determining meeting will be that of the type-setter Arthur Honegger whose influence will feel in several of works of Landowski.

In 1966, it is named by André Malraux with the direction of the music, the lyric art and the dance to the Ministère of the Cultural Affairs, function which it will exert until 1975. One owes him in particular the definition of a decennial plan for the music and the creation of the Orchestre of Paris in 1967 whose direction is entrusted to Charles Münch.

He was Perpetual Secrétaire of the Académie of the Art schools then Chancelier of the Institut of France.

He founded in 1991 association new Musique in freedom.

The musical language of Landowski is of tonal inspiration. The type-setter was always opposed to the dogmas Sérialisme. Its language is subordinated to humanistic and philosophical concerns. Respectful of the traditional forms, it gives best itself in its orchestral and vocal works, nourished of a sincere meditation on the traps of the materialism and intolerance. It is perhaps in the opera Montségur and the Messe of the Dawn that Landowski was expressed with the most force.

References

Marcel Landowski, the Musical Review n° 372-373-374 (1984), with a reasoned catalog of works established by François Fabiani, musicologist and friend of the type-setter.

External bonds

Biography on the site of the IRCAM
'' Vidéo: '' Marcel Landowski in 1966, it comments on one of its works played with a Ondes Martenot, a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision

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