Horațiu Rădulescu

Horaţiu Rădulescu ( born January 7, 1942 in Bucharest, Romania, † September 25, 2008 in Paris) was a French composer of Romanian origin.

Life

Ideologically influenced by the idea of a world Edgar Varèse he dealt especially with the invention of complex Klangkosmen in micro tonality and spectral music. By Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of George Enescu, he received private violin lessons and later studied at the Bucharest Academy of Music with Tiberiu Olah (composition), Ştefan Niculescu ( analysis) and Aurel Stroe ( orchestration and formalized music). After graduating with a diploma " Premier nommé " In 1969, he moved to Paris.

From 1970 to 1972 he attended courses by John Cage, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis at the International Summer Courses for New Music and Mauricio Kagel and Luc Ferrari in Cologne. From 1979 to 1981 he studied computer-assisted composition ( Algorithmic composition) and psycho-acoustics at the IRCAM in Paris.

In 1983 he founded in Paris with the Arditti Quartet, Pierre- Yves Artaud and other musicians, the soloists ensemble European Lucero, which since then has had many concerts in Europe and North America. 1988-89 he was a scholarship of the DAAD "Composer in Residence " in Berlin. From 1989 to 1990 he was able to work thanks to a French Villa Medici fellowship in San Francisco, Venice and Rome. In 1991 he founded the Lucero Festival with master classes for new music to life.

His compositions have been published on numerous, sometimes award-winning CDs. His entire oeuvre includes more than 100 works, including six string quartets, five piano sonatas, a piano concerto and many works for unconventional ensemble.

1974 Rădulescu obtained French citizenship; last he lived in Switzerland.

Works (selection)

• Taaroa (1969 ) for orchestra ( 1969)
• Credo for nine cellos (1969 )
• Flood for the Eternal 's Origins for general audio sources ( 1970)
• Everlasting Longings for 24 Strings ( 1972)
• In ko ' tro - Mioritic Space for 11 speakers, string orchestra, electronic and natural sounds (1973 )
• Capricorn 's nostalgic crickets for seven identical woodwinds (1972/1980)
• Hierophany lecture in 42 languages ​​with 42 children (1973 )
• Wild Incantesimo for orchestra 9, 162 musicians (1978 )
• Lamento di Gesù for large orchestra and 7 Psalters ( 1973-75 )
• A Doini for 17 musicians with sound icons (1974 )
• Thirteen Dreams Ago 11x3 for Strings ( 1978)
• Doruind for 48 votes in 7 groups ( 1976)
• Do Emerge Ultimate Silence for 34 children's voices in groups of 34 spectrally tuned monochords (1974 /84)
• 4th String Quartet - " infinite to be can not be infinite, infinite anti -be Could be infinite " for 9 string quartets ( 1976-87 )
• Inner Time for Solo Clarinet; Inner Time II (1993 ) for 7 clarinets (1983 )
• Iubiri ( Amours ) for 16 players with sound icons (1980 /1)
• Clepsydra for 16 players with sound icons (1983 )
• The Other for solo viola or cello solo violin or solo or with a jam Bass solo in exact tuned fifths (1983 )
• Astray for two duos (1983 /84)
• Awakening infinity for large ensemble of 25 players (1983 )
• Frenetico il longing di amare for a voice (bass ), flute, sound icon (1984 )
• Dizzy Divinity I for ( bass, alto, or Large ) Flute ( 1985)
• Sensual Sky for ensemble: flute in G, cello, alto saxophone, trumpet, sound icon, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass (1985 )
• Intimate Rituals for 4 sound icons with or without other soloists (1985 )
• " forefeeling " remembrances for 14 identical voices (1985 )
• Christe Eleison for Organ ( 1986)
• Mirabilia Mundi - Music for the Speyer Cathedral (1986) for 7 large groups of up to 88 musicians.
• Byzantine Prayer for 40 flautists with 72 flutes (1988 )
• Dr. Kai Hong's Diamond Mountain for 61 Spektralgongs and soloists (1991 )
• Piano Sonata No. 2 - " being and non -being create each other", Op 82 (1991 )
• Animae morte carent for oboe d' amore and Spektralklavier (1992 /95)
• 3rd Piano Sonata - "you will endure forever", Op 86 (1992 /99)
• Angolo Divino for large orchestra (1993 /94)
• Amen for organ (1993 /94)
• String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born" (1990/ 95)
• Piano Concerto " The Quest " (1996)
• String Quartet No. 6 " practicing eternity" (1992 )
• 4th piano sonata "like a well ... older than God", Op 92 (1993 )
• Amor medica bilis nullis Herbis (1996 ) for soprano, clarinet and cello
• Lux animae for cello or viola (1996 )
• L' exil interior Sonata for Cello and Piano ( 1997)
• 5th Piano Sonata " settle your dust, this is the primal identity" (2003)
• Cinerum for four voices and ensemble ( 2005)