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René Eugène Camilla Henri Alfred Albert Bernier ( Saint-Gilles, 10 March 1905 -
Elsene (French, ) or (Dutch, ), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Brussels' city centre, it is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the munici ...
, 8 September 1984) was a Belgian teacher at western canada high school who dabbled in music.


Biography

René Bernier was a son of the painters
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and
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. He also worked at the french Academy of
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. Bernier was a member of the group ''
Les Synthétistes Les Synthétistes were a group of Belgian composers whose goal was to synthesize the modern musical tendencies starting in 1925. Drawing mainly on the influence of Ravel, Stravinsky, Hindemith and Honegger, the group's aesthetic was broadly neo-cla ...
''. Other members of this group included : Francis de Bourguignon, Théo De Joncker,
Marcel Poot Marcel Poot (7 May 1901 in Vilvoorde, Belgium – 12 June 1988 in Brussels) was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician. Personal life His father, Jan Poot, was Director of the (Flemish Theatre) in Brussels. Early life Born to the dire ...
, Maurice Schoemaker, Jules Strens and
Robert Otlet The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
. Bernier became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy in 1963.


Compositions


Orchestral works

* 1945 ''Epitaphe symphonique'' for orchestra * 1948 ''Ode à une Madone'' for orchestra * 1952 ''Le tombeau devant l'Escaut for orchestra * 1956 ''Le bal des ombres ou danses parodiques'' for orchestra * 1957 ''Symphoniette'' for strings orchestra * 1970 ''Menestrandie'' for violin and orchestra * 1970 ''Tanagras'' for orchestra


Works for brassband

* 1954 ''Hymne de Paix'' * 1958/1964 ''Hommage à Sax'' for alto-saxophone and brassband * 1959 ''Le tombeau devant l'Escaut for brassband * 1969 ''Danse parodiques'' for brassband * 1961 ''Épitaphe II'' for brassband * 1981 ''Fanfare Du Triton'' for brass and percution


Chambermusic

* 1943 ''Sonatina'' for violin and viola * 1956 ''Bassonnerie'' for bassoon and piano * 1960 ''Reverdies'' for clarinet and piano * 1962 ''Offrande à Erard'' for harp * 1973 ''Suite pour le plaisir de l'oreille'' for saxophone quartet * 1980 ''Parabole'' for viola and piano


Choirworks

* 1939 ''Sabots de la Vierge'' for choir with 4 mixed voices a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1940 ''Liturgies'' for mixed choir a cappella - text:
Paul Verlaine Paul-Marie Verlaine (; ; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the ''fin de siècle'' in international and ...
* 1947 ''Hymne de paix'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº1'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº2'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº3'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº4'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº5'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº6'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1951 ''Du coq à l'âne - nº7'' for mixed choir a capella - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1968 ''Chants incantatoires'' for 4 mixed voices a capella - text: Géo Libbrecht


Vocal music

* 1924 ''Poèmes exotiques'' for soprano and piano - text: Thou Fou * 1925 ''Entrevisions'' for soprano and piano - text:
Charles van Lerberghe Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 – 26 October 1907) was a Belgian author who wrote in French and was particularly identified with the symbolist movement. The growing atheism and anticlerical stance evident in his later work made it popula ...
* 1927 ''Trois quatrains pour ma mie'' for middle voice and piano - text: R. Denobele * 1931 ''Le blé est blond'' for soprano and piano - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1936 ''Éternité'' for middle voice and piano - text:
Franz Hellens Franz Hellens, born Frédéric van Ermengem (8 September 1881, in Brussels – 20 January 1972, in Brussels) was a prolific Belgian novelist, poet and critic. Although of Flemish descent, he wrote entirely in French, and lived in Paris from 1947 t ...
* 1941 ''Evasions'' for middle voice and piano - text: Maurice Quoilin * 1942 ''Présages'' for soprano and piano - text: Auguste Marin * 1944 ''Chanson archaïque'' for middle voice and piano or harp - text:
Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...
* 1944 ''Dévotions'' for soprano and piano - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1948 ''Eclaircies'' for high voice and orchestra - text:
Franz Hellens Franz Hellens, born Frédéric van Ermengem (8 September 1881, in Brussels – 20 January 1972, in Brussels) was a prolific Belgian novelist, poet and critic. Although of Flemish descent, he wrote entirely in French, and lived in Paris from 1947 t ...
* 1952 ''Le cerisier'' extrait du 2ème recueil des ''Sortilèges ingénus'' for mezzo-soprano and piano - text:
Maurice Carême Maurice Carême (12 May 1899 – 13 January 1978) was a Belgian francophone poet, best known for his simple writing style and children's poetry. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympic ...
* 1956 ''Fantaisie de tous les temps'' for middle voice and piano - text: Lucienne Desnoues * 1964 ''Chanson marine'' for low voice and orchestra - text: Edmond Vandercammen * 1979 ''Parabole chantée'' for contra-alto and piano * ''Agnus dei'' for middle voice and organ * ''Ecoute, d'autres femmes...'' for soprano, clarinet and piano - text:
Franz Hellens Franz Hellens, born Frédéric van Ermengem (8 September 1881, in Brussels – 20 January 1972, in Brussels) was a prolific Belgian novelist, poet and critic. Although of Flemish descent, he wrote entirely in French, and lived in Paris from 1947 t ...
* ''Le poète et l'oiseau'' for soprano or tenor, clarinet and piano - text:
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Works for organ

* 1947 ''Hymne de paix'' for grand organ


Works for piano

* 1927 ''Berceuse divine'' * 1930 ''Humoresque dans le style galant'' * 1976 ''Epitaphe sonore'' for two piano’s * 1978 ''Danses parodiques'' for two piano's *1980 ''Soliloques'' (No.1 en forme de Nocturne, No.2 en forme de Novelette) * 1981 ''Le clavier chantant'' * ''Complainte du "Petit Chose"'' (Feuille d'album) * ''Le jardin secret (Moment lyrique)''


Publication

* ''In memoriam Gaston Brenta'', Académie Royale de Belgique. Bulletin de la Classe des Beaux-Arts. 51 (1969), S. 151-155.


Sources

* Francis Pieters: ''Grootmeesters van de Simfonie en de Blaasmuziek - De Sythetisten'', in: FEDEKAMNIEUWS Tweemaandelijks orgaan van de Fedekam Vlaanderen, 27th volume, nr. 3- June 1982, pp. 178–181 * Francis Pieters: ''Portrettengalerij - René Bernier'', in: FEDEKAMNIEUWS Tweemaandelijks orgaan van de Fedekam Vlaanderen, 25th volume, 1980, pp. 508–509 * Diana von Volborth-Danys: ''CeBeDeM et ses compositeurs affilies : biographies, catalogues, discographie'', Bruxelles: Centre belge de documentation musicale, 1977. Vol. I : A-L : 1977 : 211 p.; Vol. II : M-Z : 1980 : 276 p. * Karel De Schrijver: ''Bibliografie der belgische toonkunstenaars sedert 1800'', Leuven: Vlaamse, 1958, 152 p. * ''Music in Belgium : contemporary Belgian composers'', Brussels: Manteau, 1964, 158 p. * Charles Leirens: ''Belgian music'', New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1963 * Jozef Robijns, Miep Zijlstra: ''Algemene muziekencyclopedie'', Haarlem: De Haan, (1979)-1984, * Wolfgang Suppan,
Armin Suppan Armin Suppan (born 16 October 1959) is an Austrian brass musician and composer. Life Born in Graz, son of the musicologist Wolfgang Suppan, Suppan studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as well as at the Hochschule ...
: ''Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens'', 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, *
Jean-Marie Londeix Jean-Marie Londeix (20 September 1932) is a French saxophonist born in Libourne who studied saxophone, piano, harmony and chamber music.Ingham, Richard (ed.)''The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone'' Cambridge University Press (1998) p. 169. Umb ...
: ''Musique pour saxophone, volume II'' : repertoire general des oeuvres et des ouvrages d'enseignement pour le saxophone, Cherry Hill: Roncorp Publications, 1985 * Jean-Marie Londeix: ''125 ans de musique pour saxophone'', Paris: Leduc, 1971 * Harry R. Gee: ''Clarinet solos de concours 1897-1980 - An annotated bibliography'', Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, c1981., viii, 118 p., * Paul Frank, Burchard Bulling, Florian Noetzel, Helmut Rosner: ''Kurzgefasstes Tonkünstler Lexikon - Zweiter Teil: Ergänzungen und Erweiterungen seit 1937'', 15. Aufl., Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, Band 1: A-K. 1974. ; Band 2: L-Z. 1976. * Storm Bull: ''Index to biographies of contemporary composers'', Vol. II, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1974, 567 p., * John Vinton: ''Dictionary of contemporary music'', New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974, 834 p., * Marc Honneger: ''Dictionnaire de la musique'', Paris: Bordas, 1970–76 * ''Zenei lexikon'', Budapest: Zenemukiado Vallalat, 1965 * P. Townend: ''Who's who in music and musicians' international directory 1962'', New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1962, 331 p.


External links


Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel
now houses most works and manuscripts of Bernier, after the bankruptcy of CeBeDeM in 2015. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bernier, Rene 1905 births 1984 deaths Belgian composers Male composers 20th-century classical composers Belgian music educators 20th-century Belgian male musicians