Betsy Jolas

Betsy Jolas (* August 5, 1926 in Paris ) is a French composer.

The daughter of Maria Jolas translator and writer and journalist Eugene Jolas was the USA in 1940, where she studied composition with Paul Boepple, piano with Helen Schnabel and organ Carl Weinrich. In 1946 she returned to France and completed her training at the Paris Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, Simone Plé - Caussade and Olivier Messiaen.

Jolas received numerous international awards and in 1983 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1985 she was appointed Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1992 elected Personnalité de l' année in France. In 1995 she became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 the Chevalier de la Légion d' honneur.

After Jolas had represented from 1971 to 1974 Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory, she was there in 1975 professor of music analysis and 1978 for composition. In addition, she taught, inter alia, at Tanglewood, Yale University, Harvard University and Mills College.

Works

• Sonata à Trois for flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord, 1956
• 5 Poèmes de Jacques Dupin, 1959
• Mots for five soloists and ensemble, 1963
• Quatuor II for coloratura soprano and string trio, 1964
• Figures pour Instr 9, 1965
• Motet II for mixed chorus and orchestra, 1965
• J.D.E., 1966
• D'un opéra de voyage, 1967
• Points d' aube for alto flute and ensemble, 1968
• États (base sur la " Missa de Beata Virgine " J. de Prés d ) for violin and six percussionists, 1969
• Lassus ricercare ' recomposition ' en 15 extraits de R. d Lassus, 1970
• Sonata à 12 for twelve vocal soloists, 1970
• Diurnes for mixed choir, 1970
• Chanson d' Approche for piano, 1972
• B for Sonata for Piano, 1973
• Quatuor III - 9 Etudes for Two Violins, Viola and Cello, 1973
• How Now for ensemble, 1973
• Well Met for ensemble, 1973
• Trois rencontres for String Trio and Orchestra, 1973
• Le Pavillon au bord de la Riviere, Opera, 1975
• Musique de jour for Organ, 1976
• Onze songs for trumpet and ensemble, 1977
• Tales of a summer sea for orchestra, 1977
• Stances for Piano and Orchestra, 1978
• Quatre Duos for Viola and Piano, 1979
• Liring ballad for baritone and orchestra, 1980
• Pièce pour St Germain for piano, 1981
• D'un opéra de poupée de Musiques 7, 1982
• Points d'Or for saxophone and ensemble, 1982
• Episode quatrième for tenor saxophone, 1983
• Fanfares Preludes Interludes sun Ries, 1983
• Le Cyclope, opera, 1986
• Plupart du temps II for Tenor Saxophone and Tenor, 1989
• Musique pour dolphins for Violin and Cello, 1992
• Women's Lives, Nine Songs for alto and orchestra, 1992
• Perriault le deLune, madrigal for mixed choir, 1993
• Schliemann, opera, 1993
• Quatuor V for Two Violins, Viola and Cello, 1994
• Sigrancia ballad for baritone and orchestra, 1995
• Quatre Psaumes de contactor for orchestra, 1996
• Lumor, Seven Sacred Songs for Saxophone and Orchestra, 1997
• Petite symphonie concertante for Violin and Orchestra, 1997
• Sonata à 8 for eight cellos, 1998
• Motet III'Hunc igitur terrorem ' for five soloists and orchestra, 1999
• Concerto - Fantaisie 'O Night, Oh ... ' for piano and mixed choir, 2001
• Motet IV " Ventosum Vocant " for soprano and orchestra, 2002
• Migrant song for voice and ensemble, 2003
• Well Met 04, 2004
• L' ascension du Mont Ventoux, motet for soprano and ensemble, 2004
• B Day for orchestra, 2006