Amaury du Closel
Amaury du Closel (* 1956 ) is a French composer and orchestra leader.
Life
Amaury du Closel was trained by Max Deutsch in Paris from 1975 to 1980 . This was followed by studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michel Philippot . His career as a conductor and orchestra leader in France and abroad took him to Germany, Great Britain, Korea, Poland, Greece and Romania, where he has regularly directed the country's radio orchestra since 1991.
honors and awards
- 2001: Full member of the Académie des sciences morales, des lettres et des arts de Versailles .
plant
Of the works du Closels created up to 2010, three were commissioned by the French Republic. In 1993 he wrote Cinq Poèmes Expressionistes for countertenor and orchestra and in 1995 a song cycle based on poems by Else Lasker-Schüler for tenor and orchestra. Five poems by Paul Celan from 1996 have not yet been published. The piece Abîmes (abysses), a composition for violoncello from 1998, was dedicated to Henri Dutilleux and performed by Barbara Marcinkowska.
Du Closel wrote the score for various silent films , for example for Dixième Symphonie by Abel Gance and for the film Michel Strogoff (The Courier of the Tsar) by Victor Tourjansky from 1926.
book
- Choked voices. “Degenerate Music” in the Third Reich , translated by Ulrike Kolb; Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2010 ISBN 978-3-205-78292-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Amaury du Closel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | You Closel, Amaury |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and orchestra leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |