Rene Leibowitz

Rene Leibowitz (born with Warsaw the February 17th 1913 and died with Paris the August 28th 1972) is a leader, type-setter, theorist and French pedagog of Polish origin.

Biography

Its family settles in Paris in 1926. Between 1930 and 1933, he works with Arnold Schönberg in Berlin and Anton Webern in Vienna. In 1933, he also studies the orchestration with Ravel in Paris and carries on an activity of leader until 1937. As a type-setter, it adopts the language dodecaphonic of which it will become one of the most intransigent defenders. It will have as pupils of the type-setters like Pierre Boulez, Serge Nigg and Hans Werner Henze.

Work

Rene Leibowitz composed of the orchestral music, works chambrists, many melodies and many operas:

  • the closed Night (1949)
  • Spaniards in Venice (1963; created in 1970)
  • Labyrinth , according to Baudelaire (1969)

He wrote much and acted as ideologist of the modern music:

  • Introduction to the music of twelve sounds (Paris, 1949)
  • Evolution of the music of Bach with Schoenberg (Paris, 1952)
  • the Type-setter and his double (Paris, 1971)).

One owes him, moreover, a fundamental test on Schoenberg (Paris, 1969).

Repertory

It directed an integral of the symphonies of Beethoven, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which appears, in its time, like one of the first attempts to correct current interpretations and to return to the original manuscripts. Such an approach, initially underestimated, is essential nowadays like essential seizing the historical evolution of the concept of interpretation.

Writings

  • Schönberg and its school , Janin edition, (Paris 1947)
  • Introduction to the music of twelve sounds , edition the Arch (Paris 1949)
  • evolution of the music, Bach to Schönberg , edition Correa (Paris, 1951)
  • Sibelius, the worst type-setter of the world (Liege 1951)
  • Schönberg , edition Threshold, (Paris, 1969)
  • the Type-setter and his double , Tests on musical interpretation edition Gallimard (Paris 1971)
  • Phantoms of the opera. Tests on the opera house , Gallimard, (Paris 1972)

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