Edith Lejet

Édith Lejet (2011)

Édith Lejet (born July 19, 1941 in Paris ) is a French composer .

Lejet studied with Jean Rivier and André Jolivet and from 1963 to 1968 at the Paris Conservatory . She won the Prix ​​de Rome . From 1968 to 1970 she lived in Madrid , after which she taught harmony at the musicological institute of the Sorbonne . She has been a professor at the Paris Conservatory since 1972.

Lejet composes orchestral, chamber and solo works as well as vocal music.

Works

• Quatre Mélodies sur le Poème de Cante Jondo de Federico García Lorca for alto and piano, 1965
• Musique pour Trompette et Quintette de Cuivres 1968
• Le Journal d'Anne Frank for female choir and instruments, 1968–1970
• Monodrame , Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1969
• Quatuor de Saxophones , 1974
• Harmonie du Soir , for strings, 1975–1977
• Espaces Nocturnes , 1976
• L'Homme qui avait perdu sa voix , musical game for five voices and eleven instruments, 1984
• Ressac for orchestra, 1985
• Cérémonie for saxophone ensemble, 1986
• Les Rois-Mages , Oratorio, 1987-1989
• Ave Maria for organ, 1988
• Les Mille-Pattes , musical story for children's choir and instruments, 1989
• Sept Chants Sacrés , for female choir and organ, 1990
• Améthyste for strings, 1990
• Trois Eaux-Fortes for piano, 1990–1992
• Océan Pathétique, Homage au peintre Maurice Denis , 1994
• Echoes in the Valley , 1995
• Trois Chants pour un Noël for children's choir and instruments, 1995
• Missa Brevis , 1996
• Triptyque for organ, 1997
• Des Fleurs en Forme de Diamants , guitar concert, 1997
• Psaume de Joie , 1998
• Deux Poèmes de Rimbaud for soprano, clarinet, saxophone, marimba and harp, 1999
• Parcours en duo for saxophone and percussion instruments, 2001
• Diptyque for organ and strings, 2002–2003

literature

• Sax , Mule & co , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , H & D, 2004, pp. 143-144. ISBN 2-914266-03-0

Web links

• Biography on the homepage of Édith Lejet