Emmanuel Nunes
Emmanuel Nunes ( born August 31, 1941 in Lisbon; † 2 September 2012 in Paris, France) was a Portuguese composer and member of l' Itinéraire ( the route ).
Life
Nunes studied harmony and counterpoint at the Academy of Music in Lisbon and attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music in Pierre Boulez (1965) and Henri Pousseur (1964). He moved to Paris in 1964 and a year later to Cologne, where he studied composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen, electronic music with Jaap Spek and phonetics with Georg Heike. In the 1970s, he received various Stipendiate and won several awards such as the Premier Prix d' Esthetique Musicale at the Paris Conservatory.
Since the 1980s, he taught himself, among other things, at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses ( 2002). From 1986 to 1992 he took a teaching position for true composition at the Institute for New Music of the Musikhochschule Freiburg. 1991 Nunes da Ordem de Santiago da Espada appointed by the President of Portugal to the Comendador. H.C. 1996 appointed Dr. the Université de Paris VIII in 1999 he was awarded the CIM - UNESCO prize, the 2000 Pessoa Prize. From 1992 to 2006 Nunes was a professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory.
Works
Opera
- 2007: The Tale [ Le Conte, dit le Serpent vert ], opera in a prologue and two acts. Libretto by Emmanuel Nunes ( after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Tale ).