Édith Lejet

Edith Lejet ( born July 19, 1941 in Paris ) is a French composer.

Lejet studied with Jean Rivier and André Jolivet and from 1963 to 1968 at the Conservatoire. She won the Prix de Rome. From 1968 to 1970 she lived in Madrid, then she taught harmony at the musicological Institute of the Sorbonne. Since 1972 she is a professor at the Conservatoire.

Lejet composed orchestral pieces, chamber music and solo works, as well as vocal music.

Works

• Quatre mélodies sur le Poème de Cante Jondo de Federico García Lorca for alto and piano, 1965
• Musique pour Trompette et Quintette de Cuivres 1968
• Le Journal d' Anne Frank for female choir and instruments, 1968-70
• Monodrame, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1969
• Quatuor de Saxophones, 1974
• Harmonie du Soir, for strings, 1975-77
• Espaces Nocturnes, 1976
• L' Homme qui avait perdu sa voix, musical play for five voices and eleven instruments, 1984
• Ressac for orchestra, 1985
• Cérémonie for Saxophone Ensemble, 1986
• Les Rois Mages, oratorio, 1987-89
• Les Mille Pattes, musical tale for children's choir and instruments, 1989
• Sept Sacrés Chants, for women's choir and organ, 1990
• Améthyste for Strings, 1990
• Trois Eaux- Fortes for Piano, 1990-92
• Océan Pathétique, Hommage au peintre Maurice Denis, 1994
• Echoes in the Valley, 1995
• Trois Chants pour un Noël for children's choir and instruments, 1995
• Missa Brevis, 1996
• Triptyque for Organ, 1997
• Des Fleurs en Forme de diamond, guitar concert, 1997
• Psaume de Joie, 1998
• Deux Poèmes de Rimbaud for soprano, clarinet, saxophone, marimba and harp, 1999
• Parcours en duo for saxophone and percussion instruments, 2001
• Diptyque for Organ and Strings, 2002-03

• French composer
• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• Born in 1941
• Woman