Alain Bernaud

Alain Bernaud (born March 8, 1932 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French composer.

Life

Bernaud comes from a family of musicians. His father played the violin and viola, his mother, a pianist, was the daughter of the former choirmaster of the Opéra-Comique , Marcel Chadeigne . He had his first lessons with the pianist and composer Jacques Lamy , a friend of the family.

In 1938 he came to Paris, where he took piano and solfège lessons from Marie-Louise Boëllmann . At the Conservatoire de Paris he attended Lucette Descaves ' solfège class with Michel Legrand , Roger Boutry , Jean-Michel Defay and Alain Weber , studied piano with Jules Gentil , harmony with Jacques de la Presle , counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon and composition with Tony Aubin . In 1957 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata La Fée Urgèle by Françoise des Varennes after Théodore de Banville .

During the stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, which was associated with the award, Bernaud a. a. a saxophone quartet, a mass, a symphony and an orchestral overture. After his return to Paris, Bernaud made a name for himself primarily as a composer of film scores. In addition, he was professor of solfège, since 1971 of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris . After retiring in 1999, he moved to Brittany, where his Requiem for choir and orchestra was written in 2006 .

Compositions

• Sonate pour violon et piano , 1951
• Overture à la française for two pianos, 1953
• Concerto lyrique for clarinet and orchestra, 1955
• Récitatif et air for clarinet and piano, 1957
• La Fée Urgèle , cantata, 1957
• Capriccio rustique for oboe and piano, 1958
• Quatuor pour saxophones
• Les Chants de la jungle , 6 songs for baritone and string orchestra after Rudyard Kipling
• Fantaisie en mi for organ
• symphony
• Overture for chamber orchestra
• Nocturne for string orchestra
• Sept Rubaiyat for soprano and flute after Omar Chajjam
• Messe brève for mixed choir and organ, 1960
• Concertino da caméra for bassoon and string orchestra, 1962
• Pavane et Saltarelle for trumpet and piano, 1963
• Humoresque for tuba, saxhorn or cello and piano, 1964
• D'une extrême gravité , 2 pieces for double bass and piano, 1956
• Trois pièces pour les percussions , 1967
• Contrastes for viola and piano, 1968
• Réversibilité for violin and piano, 1969
• Phantasmes for clarinet and piano, 1970
• Obliques for cello and piano, 1972
• Incantation et danse for flute and piano, 1973
• Magyar for violin and piano, 1973
• Sonata for soprano and baritone saxophone, 1974
• Scherzo for horn and piano, 1975
• Hommage au capitaine Fracasse for percussion and piano, 1976
• Final for alto saxophone and piano, 1977
• Hallucinations for bassoon and piano, 1978
• Crescendo, pièces progressives pour les jeunes pianistes , 1979
• Exponentials for tenor trombone and piano, 1980
• Variations for oboe and piano, 1981
• Rhapsody for alto saxophone and piano, 1984
• Dies irae Deus misericordiae , 1986
• Le Miroir d'Euterpe , 49 Preludes for String Quartet, 1990
• Catalyses , Rhapsody for piano, 1997
• Cinq pièces for cello quartet, homage to Howard Buten , 2000
• Variazioni Napoli for baroque harpsichord, 2004
• Quatre mouvements pour trois archets et douze cordes for string trio , 2005
• Partita for cello solo, 2005
• Requiem for choir and orchestra, 2006

Film music

• 1961: Le Trésor des 13 maisons (TV series, 13 episodes)
• 1962: De la Perse à l'Iran (report)
• 1963: Rien ne va plus - Director: Jean Bacqué
• 1963: Suzanne et le cambrioleur (short film)
• 1965: Yalta ou le partage du monde (report)
• 1967: Francis au pays des grands fauves (with Antoine Duhamel , TV series, 55 episodes)
• 1968: L'Homme de l'ombre (TV series, 6 episodes)
• 1968: Nadar (report)
• 1968: Les Sœurs Barenton (short film)
• 1969: L'Homme de désir - Director: Dominique Delouche
• 1978: Une petite histoire un peu triste (short film)
• 1989: The Great Capriole (La Grande cabriole) - Director: Nina Companéez

Web links

• Prix ​​de Rome 1950-1959