Costin Miereanu (born 27 February 1943) is a 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 ...

and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

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n birth.

Biography

Miereanu was born in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

and studied at the Music Academy there from 1960 to 1966 with Alfred Mendelsohn, Tiberiu Ola,

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, Dan Constantinescu,

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, Anton Vieru, and Octavian Lazăr Cosma, and later at the École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales, at the

Schola Cantorum The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera. History La Schola was founded i ...

, and at

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, where he was awarded first prizes in writing, analysis, music history, esthetics, orchestration, and composition) and earned a Doctor of Letters and a Doctor of Musical Semiotics. Between 1967 and 1969, he was a student of

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, and Ehrhard Karkoschka at the ''

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'' in

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. In 1977, he became a French citizen. Since 1981, he has been Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Science of Art at the

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. Miereanu evolved his compositional style featuring a sensuous sonic fabric by combining of

Erik Satie Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...

's techniques with an abstraction of Romanian traditional music. Many of his complex and often virtuoso works include visual components. Miereanu has composed

aleatoric Aleatoricism or aleatorism, the noun associated with the adjectival aleatory and aleatoric, is a term popularised by the musical composer Pierre Boulez, but also Witold Lutosławski and Franco Evangelisti, for compositions resulting from "action ...

works, compositions in the style of

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, music for orchestra and chamber orchestra, often using pre-recorded tape material, as well as music for theatre. He was awarded the prize of the

European Cultural Foundation The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) is a Netherlands-based independent cultural foundation. Its mission is to “make a tangible impact on civil society, citizen initiatives, public opinion and policy proposals to combat the fragmenting forces ...

1967, the ''Prix Enescu'' (1974), and the ''Prix de la Partition Pédagogique'' of the French Composers’ Association ( SACEM). ''Portions translated from the German and French Wikipedias''

Works

*''Monostructure I'', for two orchestras *''Monostructure II'', for strings, brass, and tape *''Das Ende krönt das Werk'', for piano and six instrumental groups *''In der Nacht der Zeiten'', aleatoric music for instruments and tape *''Couleurs du temps I'', for string orchestra *''Couleurs du tempsII'' for string quartet and tape (1968) *''Monostructures I'', for brass and strings (1966) *''Couleurs du temps III'' for double string quartet and double bass *''Finis coronat opus'', for piano and six instrumental groups (1966) *''Espaces II'' for twenty stringed instruments, piano, and tape (1967–69) *''Espace dernier'', aleatoric music for choir, six instrumental groups, and tape (1966–69) *''Rosario'', for large orchestra (1973–76) *''Domingo'', for vocal quintet and variable instruments (1974) *''Planetarium'', for two flutes, trombone, and two percussionists (1975) *''Raum jenseits von gestern'', aleatoric music for chamber orchestra *''L'Avenir est dans les œufs'', opera (1980) *''Le jardin de sécrets'', for soprano, alto flute or viola, bass clarinet, trombone, piano, and accordion or electric organ (1980) *''Cuivres célestes'', for brass quintet, two percussionists, and strings (1981) *''Labyrinthes d’Adrien'', for soprano and ensemble (1981) *''Miroirs célestes'', for orchestra (1981–83) *''Kammerkonzert'', for saxophone and nine instruments (1985) *''Doppel(kammer)konzert'', for saxophone, percussion, and chamber orchestra (1985) *''D’un régard moiré'', for woodwind quartet, string trio, double bass, piano, and percussion (1988) *''Sextuplum'', for six percussionists (1988–89) *''Ricochets'', saxophone(s), electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, and percussion (1989) *''D’un source oubliée'', for harpsichord and string sextet (1989) *''Un temps sans mémoire'', for orchestra (1989–92) *''Immersion'', for saxophone(s) and tape (1990) *''La Porte du paradis'', lyric fantasie (1991) *''De humani corporis fabbrica'', ballet (1992) *''Les miroirs invisibles'', for string sextet (1992) *''Vol du temps, canticum sacrum in memoriam Jean-Pierre Ouvrard'', for mixed choir a cappella, or mixed choir and three percussionists (1993) *''Solo III'', for solo violin (1995) *''Solo IV, rythmodies'', for amplified basson (1995) *''Solo V'', for oboe, or cor anglais, or baritone oboe (1995) *''Solo VI'', for solo cello (1995) *''Solo VII'', for solo viola (1995) *''Orison'', ballet (1999) *Symphony No. 3 "Blick auf die Frühe" (2001)

References

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