Saint-Preux

Saint- Preux ( born 1950 ) is the pseudonym of the French composer Christian Langlade.

Biography

In August 1969, he took in Poland at the Sopot International Song Festival, where he conducted a symphony orchestra and with his first major composition La valse de l' enfance (engl. The waltz Youth ) won the prize of the international press. He then worked in Poland at its second major composition, Concerto pour une voix (engl. Concerto for one voice). Then the title Le Piano sous la mer followed (Eng. The Piano under the sea ), La Fête triste (engl. The sad festival), Missa Amoris and Symphonie pour la Pologne (engl. Symphony for Poland).

The title Les cris de la Liberté (engl. The cries of freedom ), is a hymn to peace and human rights, which was played in 1989 during the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille to the Place de la Concorde in Paris and to the following of the French Revolution Declaration of Human Rights recalls. During these celebrations Saint Preux John Paul II, to whom he dedicated this piece met.

Saint- Preux worked with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Symphony Orchestra and the choirs of Krakow, the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Montreal. In 2007 he wrote a new interpretation of Concerto pour une voix, the Concerto pour deux voix as ( dt Concerto for two voices ) Clémence by his daughter and singer Jean-Baptiste Maunier was sung.

Discography

  • Concerto pour une voix (1969 )
  • Le piano sous la mer (1972 )
  • La passion (1973 )
  • La fête triste (1974 )
  • Your hair & Missa Amoris (1975 )
  • Concerto pour piano (1975 )
  • Symphonie pour la Pologne (1977 )
  • To be or not (1980 )
  • Le paino d' Abigaïl (1983 )
  • Atlantis ( 1983)
  • Phytandros (1991)
  • Free Yourself (1999)
  • The last opera (1994 )
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