Charles Augustin Chaynes (11 July 1925 – 24 June 2016) was a French composer.

Biography

Chaynes was born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

in 1925. He studied at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

with

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions ...

and

Jean Rivier Alexis Fernand Félix Jean Rivier (21 July 1896 – 6 November 1987) was a French composer of classical music in the neoclassical style. The son of Henri Rivier, a co-inventor of Armenian paper, he composed over two hundred works, including musi ...

. In 1951 he won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

with the cantata ''Et l'homme se vit les portes rouvrir''. During his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome he wrote the ''First Concerto for String Orchestra'' and the ''Ode for a Tragic Death''. In 1956 he became a producer at the Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (RTF). In 1964 he succeeded

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as head of the channel ''France Musique''. From 1975 to 1990 he headed the ''service de la création musicale'' at

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. In addition to several operas, one symphony and chamber works Chaynes composed numerous concertos, etc. for trumpet, violin, piano and organ, and two orchestral concerts. In 1966 he composed a concerto for organ, string orchestra, timpani and percussion for

Marie-Claire Alain Marie-Claire Geneviève Alain-Gommier (10 August 1926 – 26 February 2013) was a French organist, scholar and teacher best known for her prolific recording career, with 260 recordings, making her the most-recorded classical organist in the world ...

. His Piano Concerto was premiered in 1967 by

Yvonne Loriod Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen (; 20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot player Jeanne Loriod. Biography Loriod ...

, the wife of

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

. He died on 24 June 2016 in

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at the age of 90.

Selected works

* Symphony (1955) * Concerto for organ, string orchestra, timpani and percussion (1966) * Piano Concerto (1966) * ''Alternances'' for viola and piano (1966)

Honours

Chaynes was inter alia the ''Grand Prix Musical of Paris'' (1965), the ''Prix du Disque of the Académie du disque français'' (1968, 1970, 1975 and 1981), the ''Prix de la Tribune internationale des compositeurs'' UNESCO (1976), the ''Prix Musical de la SACD'' (1988) and the ''Orphée d'Or of the Académie du Disque Lyrique'' (1996 and 2003). He was awarded officer of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

, the

Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's esta ...

and Commander of the

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...

. In 2005 he became a member of the

Académie des Beaux-Arts An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...

. * : Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (November 1999)Sovereign Ordonnance n° 14.274 of 18 Nov. 1999
: promotions or nominations

References

External links

* Official Website of Charles Chayne
www.charleschaynes.com
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