André Boucourechliev

André Boucourechliev (born July 28, 1925 in Sofia , † November 13, 1997 in Paris ) was a French composer, pianist and music writer of Bulgarian origin.

Boucourechliev studied music theory and piano at the State Music Academy in Sofia from 1946 and was a student of Walter Gieseking at the École Normale de Musique de Paris ; he passed his concert diploma before Alfred Cortot . His first electro-acoustic compositions were performed by Domaine musical , a concert company founded by Pierre Boulez . He became known as a composer for Archipel , a series of five instrumental works in different line-ups (1967–1970). This was followed by Ombres for string orchestra, Faces , a piano concerto, Thrène for electronic instruments based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé and, in 1978, the opera Le nom d'Oedipe . In 1984, Lit de neige was written after Paul Celan and Le miroir for soprano and orchestra. His last work, Trois Fragments de Michel Ange , was written in 1995.

Boucourechliev was also a distinguished music writer: he wrote biographies of Robert Schumann (1956), Frédéric Chopin (1962), Ludwig van Beethoven (1963), Igor Stravinsky (1982) and Claude Debussy , which are now considered standard works.

Web links

• Works by and about André Boucourechliev in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official site for André Boucourechliev
• Les Amis d'André Boucourechliev