Jean Barraqué

Jean Barraqué ( born January 17, 1928 in Puteaux, near Paris; † August 17, 1973 in Paris) was a French composer.

Barraqué is an important representative of serial music. The list of works that he himself has considered valid and which he was able to complete, is very narrow.

Works

• Return pour piano ( 1947-48 )
• Sonate pour violon seul (1949 )
• Sonate pour piano ( 1950-52 )
• Séquence pour voix ( soprano dramatique ) battery, et divers instruments ( 1950-55 ). Texts of Friedrich Nietzsche. French translation by Henri Albert (1950-1955)
• Le Temps Restitue for soprano, choir and orchestra based on a text from The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch, 1956-57, 1967-68 (orchestrator)
• Au delà du hasard ... pour quatre formations instrumental et une formation vocal ( 1958-59 ). Text by Jean Barraqué after a quote from Hermann Broch
• Concerto pour six formations instrumental et deux instruments ( vibraphone et clarinet ), 1962-68
• Chant après chant pour six Batteurs, voix et piano. Texts by Jean Barraqué and Hermann Broch ( "The Death of Virgil ," second book, French translation by Albert Kohn ) ( 1965-66 )