Jacques Castérède

Jacques Castérède (10 April 1926 – 6 April 2014)"Jacques Castérède est mort"
sur Qobuz.com, 8 avril 2014 was a French composer and pianist.

Life

Born in Paris, Castérède studied at Lycée Buffon. He earned his baccalauréat in elementary mathematics, then entered the Paris Conservatory in 1944 and began studying piano under Armand Ferté, composition under Tony Aubin, and analysis under Olivier Messiaen. While at the Conservatory, between 1948 and 1953 he received five first prizes (in piano, chamber music, analysis, composition, and harmony). He also won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1953 with his cantata ''La Boîte de Pandore'' (Pandora's Box). The following year, he went to Rome, where he stayed at the Villa Medici until 1958.

In 1960, he was appointed professor of solfège in the Paris Conservatory, then counseller of piano studies (Conseilleur aux Études) in 1966, and analysis in 1971. In addition, he taught composition at the École Normale from 1983 to 1988, and analysis from 1988 to 1998. On an invitation from the Chinese government, he became a professor of composition at the Central Academy in Beijing. He received numerous awards as a composer, among them the Paris Civil Award in 1991, the Charles Cros Award, and the Record Academy Award in 1995. His many works, which include symphonies, concertos, ballets, and ensemble and chamber music, have been performed throughout France, Germany, and Italy as well as in the United States and Canada.

His music is essentially melodic, often using modal scales over rich and varied structures.

Main Works

Stage

* Chamber opera ''La Cour des miracles'' (1954)
* Oratorio ''Le Livre de Job'' (1958)
* Ballet ''Basketball'' (1959)
* Ballet ''But'' (1959)

Orchestral

* 1ère Symphonie pour cordes (1952)
* ''La Folle nuit de n'importe ou'' (1955)
* ''La Grande peur'' (1955)
* ''Cinq Danses symphoniques'' (1956)
* ''Musique pour un conte d'Edgar Allan Poe'' (1957)
* ''Suite en trois mouvements à la mémoire d'Honegger'' (1957)
* ''La Déscente de croix de Rubens'' (1958)
* ''Le Fil d'Ariane'' (1959), orchestra
* Symphonie No. 2 (1960)
* Prélude et fugue (1960)
* ''Pamplemousse'' (1962)
* ''Sophie-Dorothée'' (1962)
* ''Promenade printaniere'' (1963)
* ''Divertissement d'été'' (1965)

Concertante works

* Concerto No. 1 pour piano et orchestre à cordes (1954)
* Concertino (1958)
* Concerto No. 2 pour piano et orchestre (1970)
* Concerto pour guitare et orchestre (1973)
* ''Trois paysages d'automne'' (1982)
* 2ème Concerto pour guitare et orchestre (1988)

Chamber

* Intermezzo (1953)
* Pastorale (1953)
* Scherzo (1953)
* Wind Quintet (1953)
* Sonatine pour trompette et piano (1953)
* ''Suite mythologique'' (1954)
* Sonate pour violon et piano (1955)
* Sonate en forme de suite (1955)
* Sonate pour clarinet et piano (1956)
* Sonate pour haubois et piano (1957)
* Sonatine for Trombone and Piano (1957)
* ''Prélude et danse'' (1959)
* ''Fantaisie concertante'' (1960)
* ''Musique'' for flute, string trio and harp (1960)
* ''Capriccio'' for violin and piano (1961)
* ''La Fileuse'' for bassoon and piano (1961)
* ''Douze Études'' for flute (1961)
* ''Flûtes en vacances'' for 3 or 4 flutes (1964)
* ''Ondes'' for ondes Martenot, piano and percussion (1962)
* Sonatina for tuba and piano (1963)
* ''Interférences'' for piano and percussion (1963)
* ''Ténèbres'' for reciter, piano and 3 percussionists (1963)
* ''Six Pièces brèves en duo'' for 2 trumpets (1965)
* Sonata for viola and piano (1968)
* ''Arithmophonie'' for 4 percussionists (1974)
* ''Avant que l'aube ne vienne'' for string quartet and piano (1975)
* ''Ciels'' for flute and piano (1980)
* ''5 Bagatelles'' for four flutes (1980)
* ''Sonatine d'avril'' for flute and guitar (1985)
* ''Trois Visions de l'Apocalypse'' for brass septet and organ (1986)
* ''Les Heures calmes'', 3 Pieces for 1, 2 and 3 violas (1987)
* ''Trois Moments musicaux d'après Corot'' for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1987)
* ''Pro tempore passionis'' for string quartet (1988)
* ''Quartettsatz'' for string quartet (1989)
* ''Sonatine de mai'' for flute and harp (2001)
* ''Hommage aux Pink Floyd'' for guitar

Piano

* ''Passacaille et fugue'' (1953)
* ''Suite à danser'' (1953)
* ''Quatre Études'' (1957)
* ''Variations'' (1960)
* ''Diagrammes'' (1961)
* ''Feux croises'' (1963)
* Sonata pour piano (1967)
* ''Toccata''
* ''Pianologie'' (1977)
* ''Hommage à Thelonious Monk'' (1983)
* ''La Course du soleil'' (1992)
* ''Pour un tombeau de Frédéric Chopin'' (1992)

Songs

* ''Trois Mélodies sur des poèmes de Paul Fort'' (1951)
* ''Trois fanfares pour la proclamation de Napoleon'' (1952)
* ''La Chanson du mal-aime'' (1960)
* ''L'Autre bout du monde'', cantate instrumentale (1960)
* ''Quatre poèmes de Robert Desnos'' (1965)
* ''Liturgies de la vie et de la mort'' (1980)
* ''Jusqu'à mon dernier souffle'' (1986)
* ''Psaume VIII'' (1987)
* ''Cantique de la création'' (1994)
* ''Dans les abîmes de l'absence'' (1996)
* ''Mon père je m'abandonné à toi'' (1997)

References

External links

Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine
(CDMC) biographical page">Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine">Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine
(CDMC) biographical pagebr>Musique Contemporaine files on CastérèdeGoogle book search
''Music, society and imagination in contemporary France'', Volume 8, Part 1 By François Bernard Mâche

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1926 births
2014 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century French composers
20th-century French male musicians
Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
French classical composers
French male classical composers
Lycée Buffon alumni
Musicians from Paris
Prix de Rome for composition