Jean-Pierre Guézec (19 August 1934 – 9 March 1971) was 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 ...

Life

Born in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

, Guézec studied music 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 ...

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 ...

and

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 also worked with

Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde ...

. His very personal language is influenced by the techniques of modern painting, in particular those of Mondrian and

Vasarely Victor Vasarely (; born Győző Vásárhelyi, ; 9 April 1906 – 15 March 1997) was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work entitled ''Zebra'', created in 1937, is consid ...

. His research led him to compose works in which the contrasts of sound materials and a very original sense of colour dominate, as evidenced by the title of his works. From 1969 to 1971, he held an analysis class at the Conservatoire de Paris until his early death at the age of 36 in Paris. Xenakis dedicated his 1971 composition ''

Charisma Charisma () is a personal quality of presence or charm that compels its subjects. Scholars in sociology, political science, psychology, and management reserve the term for a type of leadership seen as extraordinary; in these fields, the term "ch ...

'' to Guézec.

Awards

Musical composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...

prize of the 1963

Tanglewood Music Center The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops. The center operates as a part of the Tanglew ...

. * Grand Prix for the symphonic promotion of the SACEM in 1968

Principal compositions

* Concert for main violin and 14 instruments (1960) * ''Concert en 3 parties'', for percussion and 10 musicians (1961) * ''Trois poèmes de

Henri Michaux Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim ...

'', for voice and piano (1961) * ''La Loreley'', on a them by

Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire) of the Wąż coat of arms. (; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...

for

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

baritone A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types. The term originates from the Greek (), meaning "heavy sounding". Composers typically write music for this voice in the r ...

, narrator and orchestra (1961) * ''Suite pour Mondrian'', 7 parts to play in any order, for 73 musicians (1963) * ''Architectures colorées'', for ensemble of 15 musicians (1964) * ''Cinq pièces pour orchestre et ensemble vocal'', for 3 soprani, 3 alti, 3 tenors, 3 basses and orchestra (1964) * ''Ensemble multicolore'', for an ensemble of 18 musicians (1965) * ''Formes'', for 92 musicians (1966) * ''Saül'', musical radio illustration on lyrics by

André Gide André Paul Guillaume Gide (; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the Symbolism (arts), symbolist movement, to the advent o ...

, for octet (1966) * ''Textures enchaînées'', for instrumental ensemble (1967) * ''Assemblages'', for 28 musicians (1967) * ''Trio pour violon, alto et violoncelle'' (1968) * ''Successif-simultané'', for 12 strings (1968) * ''Forme-Couleurs'', for 2 main harps and 9 musicians (1969) * ''Reliefs polychromés'', for 12 real vocal parts (1969) * ''Onze pour cinq'', for 5 percussionists (1970)

References

Sources

* ''Dictionnaire de la musique française'', Larousse,

Marc Vignal Marc Vignal (born 21 December 1933 in Nogent-sur-Marne) is a noted French musicologist, writer and radio producer for France Musique and program manager at Radio France (1975–99), a journalist for ''Harmony'' (1964–84), ''Le Monde de la musique' ...

Berliner Festspiele The Berliner Festspiele (German for Berlin Festivals) are a series of festivals, art exhibitions, and other cultural events organized all year long by a common organization in Berlin. Events are held at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, a pre-ex ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guezec, Jean-Pierre 1934 births 1971 deaths Musicians from Dijon Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris 20th-century French composers French classical composers French male classical composers

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