Alexandre Danilevski (russian: Александр Данилевский; born in 1957 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) is a Russian-born French

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

lutenist A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can refe ...

vielle The vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a ...

player, active in

Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...

, France. He is the artistic director of Syntagma, an early music ensemble noted in particular for interpretations of music by the

trouvère ''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French (''langue d'oïl'') form of the ''langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word ''troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to poet- ...

s, Italian composers from

Trecento The Trecento (, also , ; short for , "1300") refers to the 14th century in Italian cultural history. Period Art Commonly, the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the Renaissance in art history. Painters of the Trecento included Giotto ...

, and Russian and Ukrainian

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

composers. In 2012 Danilevski was profiled in an hour-long program on the Dutch radio station

Concertzender The Dutch public broadcasting system ( nl, Nederlands publieke omroepbestel) is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroe ...

List of works

Piano solo

* Sonata N° 2 (1987) Sonata-Reminiscenza: In Memoriam Nikolai Medtner * Sonata "1985. In Memoriam Charles Ives" * Le Retour * Piano Suite in g * Raining on Kopenhagen; * Sonates I and II; * Night Music; * Concerto for two pianos

Other instruments

* Sonata I for violin and piano; * "Revelation" for cello solo, ed. by HH-Musikverlag: AD001 * Three Inventions for three melodic instruments * Ricercars (7 pieces for recorder or flute solo – in print now: Edition Tre Fontane); * "Tombeau de Messiaen" for organ, commissioned for the festival "La Route des Orgues"; * Dolce Suono for two recorders – ed. by Tre Fontane: ETF 2038 * "Antiphones – I" (1997 – in print Tre Fontane) and II * Senza Titolo * Organum for string orchestra; * String Quartets I to X

For voice and instrumental ensemble

* Koanes, 2013 * Lauda 'Se mai per maraveglia' * Oda an die Traurigkeit * "Seven Words of Christ" * Pietа for soprano and string quartet, recorder and organ ad libitum;

Recordings

*A. Danilevski. Koanes. Fragments of Consciousness. Centaur Records, 2016 – ensemble Syntagma and ensemble SurPlus *A. Danilevski. The Uncertainty Principle, Carpe Diem, 2012 ("Lauda", "Oda an die Traurigkeit" – Syntagma, "Antiphones" – Flanders Recorder Quartet, "Révélation" – Larissa Groeneveld, cello) *"Journey to the Cedar Forest" from the ballet ''Enkidu and Gilgamesh'' Early Music *"Johannes Ciconia and his time" Melodia 1998 *"Russian Baroque Music" Pierre Vérany, 2002 *"Touz esforciez /Trouvères en Lorraine", Pierre Vérany, 2004 *"Gautier d'Epinal/Remembrance", Challenge,2008 *"Stylems" (music from

) Challenge, 2008 *"Rosa e Orticha" (music from

) Carpe Diem, 2011 *"Songé .i. songe" (mediabook; songs and a ''Dit enté'' by Jehan de Lescurel, early 14th century) FacSimile, 2015 *"Gesta Romanorum (mediabook; 13th – 14th centuries) FacSimile, 2018 Contemporary Music: * A. Danilevski "The Uncertainty Principle', Carpe Diem, 2012 * A. Danilevski "Koans. Fragments of Consciousness'. Centaur, 2016

References

Alexandre Danilevski, composer's webpageTokafi: 15 questions to Alexandre Danilevski

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Danilevsky, Alexandre French classical composers French male classical composers Russian classical composers Russian male classical composers Composers for lute Lutenists 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Postmodern composers 1957 births Living people 20th-century French composers 21st-century French composers 20th-century French male musicians 21st-century French male musicians