Marius Constant

Marius Constant ( born February 7, 1925 in Bucharest, † 15 May 2004, Paris) was a French composer and conductor of Romanian origin.

Constant studied at the Conservatory in Bucharest piano and composition and was awarded the 1944 George Enescu Prize. In 1946 he moved to Paris, where he was a student of Olivier Messiaen, Tony Aubin, Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire. His compositions have won several prizes. From 1950 he worked increasingly with electronic music and was a member of the Groupe de Recherche de musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer.

In the period 1956-1966 was Constant conductor of the Ballets de Paris, who led Roland Petit. In those days he wrote numerous compositions for ballet Petit and Maurice Béjart, so skin -voltage (1956 ), Contre Pointe (1958), Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1959), Éloge de la folie (1966) and Paradis perdu (1967). For the Aix -en- Provence Festival in 1957 he wrote a piano concerto, he became known, however, especially by the Group chaired by Leonard Bernstein premiere of 24 Preludes pour Orchestre (1958). Turner ( 1961) continued the picturesque language of the English painter William Turner into music.

In 1963, Constant, the ensemble Ars Nova, which is considered one of the first focused specifically on the performance of contemporary music. In 1970 he became head of the music department of the ORTF; in the years 1973 to 1978, he held the musical director of the Paris Opera, and in the years 1988 and 1989 he was at the Paris Conservatoire professor of orchestration and instrumentation. He also taught at Stanford University (California ) and in Hilversum. Other ballets incurred, Septentrion (1975 ), Nana (1976) and L' ange bleu (1985). A worldwide success was La tragédie de Carmen (1981 ), a written together with the director Peter Brook processing of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. 1990 also he created an excellent orchestration of the piano work Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel.

Works

  • Operas La serrure (1969 )
  • Le souper (1969 )
  • Le jeu de Ste Agnes (1974 )
  • La tragédie de Carmen (1981, after Georges Bizet )
  • Impressions de Pelléas (1992; according to Claude Debussy )
  • Teresa. Melodrame fantastique (1995 )
  • Des saisons en enfer. Melodrame lyrique (1999)
  • Le joueur de flute (1951 )
  • Skin -voltage ( 1956, in collaboration with Pierre Henry)
  • Contre Pointe (1958 )
  • Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1959)
  • Éloge de la folie (1966 )
  • Paradis perdu (1967 )
  • Candide. Mimodrama (1970; concert version for harpsichord and orchestra)
  • Septentrion (1975 )
  • Nana (1976 )
  • L' ange bleu (1985 )
  • Piano Concerto ( 1957)
  • 24 Préludes pour Orchestre (1958 )
  • Turner ( 1961)
  • Chaconne et marche militaire (1968 )
  • Faciebat Anno 1973 for 24 Violins and Orchestra (1973 )
  • Gli elementi. Concerto for Trumpet, Strings and 2 Horns (1977 )
  • Symphony for wind instruments (1978 )
  • Nana Symphony (1980 )
  • 103 regards dans l'eau for Violin and Orchestra ( 1981)
  • Pelléas et Mélisande. Symphony (1983 )
  • L' inauguration de la maison for Orchestra ( 1985)
  • Concerto for organ, and orchestra ( 1988)
  • Choruses and Interludes for Horn and Orchestra
  • Concertante for saxophone and orchestra
  • Wind trio (1949 )
  • 3 complexes for piano and double bass (1950 )
  • Ponant 19 Mouvement choréographique for piano and 19 instruments ( 1963)
  • Winds for 14 wind instruments ( 1968)
  • Traits for 6-25 instruments (1969 )
  • Equal for 5 percussionists ( 1969)
  • 14 stations for 7 instruments ( 1969-70 )
  • Moulins à prière for Harpsichord ( 1969)
  • Pour flute et un instrument (1971 )
  • 9 mars 1971 Piccolo Flute ( 1971)
  • Strings for 12 strings and electric guitar (1972 )
  • Piano personnage for piano and 16 instruments (1973 )
  • Silètes for Harpsichord ( 1973)
  • For Clarinet (1974 )
  • Psyché for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists (1975 )
  • The separation. String Quartet (1990 )
  • Les chants de Maldoror for speaker, 23 instrumentalists, 10 cellos and a choreographer - director (1962 )
  • 5 chants et une vocalise for soprano and orchestra (1968 )
  • Trois poèmes élastiques for choir ( 1987)
  • Oratorio des droits de l' homme (1989 )
  • Chant de retour. Oratorio ( 1995)
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