Alain Margoni

Alain Margoni (born October 13, 1934 in Neuilly-Plaisance ) is a French composer .

Margoni studied harmony with Henri Challan at the Conservatoire de Paris , counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon , orchestral conducting with Louis Fourestier , music analysis with Olivier Messiaen and Ondes Martenot with Maurice Martenot . In the competition for the Prix ​​de Rome in 1957 and 1958 he won a second prize and in 1959 the Premier Grand Prix with the cantata Dans les Jardins d'Armide based on Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata .

After the four-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome associated with the award, he worked for nine years at the Comédie-Française , first as factotum musical , later as musical director. He then received a chair in music analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition, he worked as a conferencier, conductor, improviser with the Ondes Martenot, appeared as a pianist and music theorist and musical comedian, the latter with Jérôme Deschamps and Alain Germain .

For Germain he wrote the music for the piece Un piano pour deux pianistes , in which he himself appeared in 1987 with Pascal Le Corre . In addition to around 150 film, television and drama music, Margoni composed a musical story about the discovery of America, an opera, an oratorio and numerous chamber music works.

Works

• Après une lecture de Goldoni , 18th century fantasy for bass trombone, tuba or saxhorn and piano, 1964
• Après une lecture d'Hoffmann , improvisation for double bass and piano, 1967
• Après une lecture de Dreiser for bassoon and piano, 1969
• Quatre personnages de Calderon for guitar, 1972
• Cadence et danses for alto saxophone and piano, 1974
• Séquence pour un hymne à la nuit for cello and piano, 1979
• Dialogue, détente et stretto for trumpet or cornet and piano, 1980
• Trois eaux-fortes for viola and piano, 1982
• Danse ancienne (chaconne) et danse modern for two harps
• Le Petit livre de Gargantua for tenor trombone and piano in three volumes, 1982
• Petit théâtre for oboe and piano, 1982
• Elégie for trombone and piano, 1983
• Sur un thème de John Bull for horn and piano
• Dix Etudes dans le style contemporain for clarinet, 1983
• Les Caractères , Variations for oboe and piano, 1984
• Variation et hommage for clarinet
• Pierrot ou les secrets de la nuit , opera based on a libretto by Rémi Laureillard based on Michel Tournier , 1990
• Premier Quatuor de saxophones , 1991
• Promenades romaines for alto saxophone and piano, 1993–95
• L'Enfant des alpages , oratorio for children's choir, instrumental ensemble and alpine horns, 1996
• Dix Etudes dans le style contemporain for saxophone, 1999
• Sonata for baritone saxophone
• Soundtrack for the three-part television film Les maîtres du pain by Hervé Baslé , 2001
• Quatre chants vénitiens for soprano, tenor saxophone and piano, 2001
• L'Ile des Guanahanis , musical story based on a book by Rémi Laureillard for an actor, choir and orchestra