Thérèse Brenet (born 22 October 1935) is a French composer.
Born in Paris, she studied at the
Conservatoire de Reims and since 1954 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 ...
. Among her teachers were
Maurice Duruflé
Maurice Gustave Duruflé (; 11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher.
Life and career
Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902. He became a chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School ...
,
Henri Dutilleux
Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...
,
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 m ...
. In 1965 she 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 ...
for her ''Les Visions prophétiques de Cassandre''; a prize which enabled her to pursue further studies at the
French Academy in Rome
The French Academy in Rome (french: Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.
History
The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 16 ...
. She went on to win the
Halphen Prize for
fugue
In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the co ...
and composition and won the
Coplay Foundation of Chicago's composition prize. She is also an honorary member of the National Academy of History in
Reims
Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne.
Founded ...
.
Biography of Thérèse Brenet at www.depleinvent.com
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References
External links
(archive from 8 June 2009; accessed 29 October 2018).
Thérèse Brenet's biography
on Cdmc’s website
1935 births
20th-century classical composers
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
French women composers
French classical composers
Living people
Prix de Rome for composition
Pupils of Darius Milhaud
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