Antoine Duhamel

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Antoine Duhamel (born July 30, 1925 in Valmondois ; † September 11, 2014 there ) was a French composer. He especially composed film music for the Nouvelle Vague .

life and career

Antoine Duhamel, born in Valmondois in 1925 as the son of the writer Georges Duhamel and the actress Blanche Albane , studied psychology and musicology at the Sorbonne after the Second World War and also studied music with Olivier Messiaen and René Leibowitz at the Paris Conservatory . At the Cinémathèque française in autumn 1944 he discovered his love for German films before National Socialism.

From 1947 he was an employee of the Club d'Essai ; During this time he also wrote his first own compositions. He was hired by André Charlin and Henri Screpel in their recording studio in 1954 , where he was the artistic director of recordings with Yves Nat , Lily Kraus , Marcelle Meyer and others. In 1957 he recorded with Gérard Philipe Mozart raconté aux enfants , a text he had written with his father.

From 1957 onwards he wrote the first film scores for Albert Champeaux , Philippe Condroyer , Jean-Daniel Pollet , Pierre-André Boutang and Alexandre Astruc . Jean-Luc Godard turned to him and asked for music in the style of Robert Schumann for his film Elf Uhr auf Nacht . Duhamel also worked with Éric Rohmer , Jacques Rivette , Barbet Schroeder , Bertrand Tavernier , Roland de Candé , Claude Barma , Maurice Ronet , Joris Ivens, and other directors.

Duhamel's first opera Le Rital, ou Lundi, Monsieur, vous serez riche premiered in 1968 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris, based on a play by Remo Forlani . In the same year he also worked for the first time with François Truffaut : In addition to stolen kisses , Duhamel also composes for the Truffaut films The Secret of the False Bride , The Wild Child and Table and Bed . In addition to other operas and film music, chamber music works and the ballet On n'est pas sérieux quand on a 17 ans in the choreography of Jean Babilée (1972) were created in the following years . In 1978 he received the Prix ​​Georges Enesco for the composition Animus-Anima .

In 1980 Duhamel founded the École de Musique de Villeurbanne and settled in the Rhône-Alpes region for six years . During this time, among other things, the Suite symphonique pour Intolérance for the silent film Intolerance by David Wark Griffith was created . After returning to Paris, he became a member of the SACEM board . The monumental Villeurbanne Symphony for 550 musicians was written in 1990 .

Pierre Lenert and the Orchester Léon Barzin gave the world premiere of his Lamento-Mémoire for viola and chamber orchestra in 1996 under the direction of Jean-Jacques Werner . In 1997, Duhamel published his parents' correspondence from the time of the First World War (Correspondance de guerre) . He also created music for television productions such as Contre-temps by Jean-Daniel Pollet , El Mono Loco by Fernando Trueba , Mon dernier rève sera pour vous by Robert Mazoyer , Les ritals by Marcel Bluwal and Vous aimez la musique, Antoine by Jean-Pierre Sougy .

In addition to ballets, chamber music and symphonic works, Duhamel composed ten operas and almost one hundred film scores. At the 2002 Berlinale , he won the Silver Bear for best film music.

Works

  • Humoresque for orchestra
  • Le Scieur de long , opera (libretto: Claude Ciccione and Charles Baudelaire ), 1951/52, 1983/84
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra, 1957/58
  • Diametres , concerto for organ, strings and piano
  • Saint-Fargeaux Symphony
  • Antoine Douanel , symphonic suite
  • Pierrot le Fou , four pieces for orchestra, 1965/66
  • Lundi Monsieur, vous serez riche , opera (libretto: Remo Forlani ), 1968
  • L'Opéra des oiseaux Fête musicale (Libretto: Antoine Duhamel, Serge Ouaknine and Kostas Ferris after Aristophanes ), 1971
  • Animus-Anima for large orchestra, 1973
  • Territoires for string orchestra, 1974
  • Ubu à l'opéra , opera (Libretto: Georges Wilson after Alfred Jarry ), 1974
  • Gambara , opera (libretto: Robert Pansard Besson and Geneviève Dufour after Honoré de Balzac ), 1977/78
  • Le Tombeau du Philippe d'Orleans for string orchestra, 1978
  • Symphony Death Watch , 1979
  • Les Travaux d'Hercule , children's opera (own libretto), 1981
  • Le Transsibérien , Opéra ferroviaire (Libretto: Blaise Cendrars ), 1983
  • L'Hommage du Large. Essay Symphonique for the silent film by Marcel L'Herbier , 1983
  • Serenade à la Quinte for violin, cello and orchestra, 1984
  • Suite symphonique pour Intolérance (with Pierre Jansen ), 1985
  • Week-End , Suite for Orchestra, 1985
  • Quatrevingt-treize , opera (Libretto: Gil Ben Aych after Victor Hugo ), 1989
  • Ballade au Vibraphone for vibraphone and chamber ensemble, 1991
  • Les Aventures de Sinbad le marin , opera (with Fawzi Al Aiedy , libretto: Michel Beretti ), 1991
  • Valse d'Hiver for orchestra, 1994
  • Carmenmania , ballet, 1994
  • Lamento-Mémoire: Récitation concertante for viola and chamber orchestra, 1996

Film music (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1976: César nomination, best film music, for When the festival begins ...
  • 1979: César nomination, best film music, for Roland
  • 1981: César nomination, Best Score, for Death Watch - The Bought Death
  • 1990: Goya nomination, best film music, for El sueño del mono loco
  • 1993: Goya nomination, best film music, for Belle Epoque
  • 1997: César nomination, best film music, for Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances
  • 1999: Goya nomination, Best Film Music, for The Girl of Your Dreams
  • 2002: Silver Bear for Best Film Music, Berlinale, for Laissez-passer
  • 2003: César nomination, best film music, for Laissez-passer
  • 2003: Étoile d'Or , best film score, for Laissez-passer

Web links

Commons : Antoine Duhamel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Antoine Duhamel in: Le Monde of September 11, 2014 , accessed on September 12, 2014
  2. ↑ Bruno Lesprit: Antoine Duhamel, compositeur: "Le pastiche m'est naturel". Interview, lemonde.fr, February 7, 2006, accessed September 12, 2014
  3. ^ Royal S. Brown: Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music. University of California Press, Berkeley 1994, ISBN 0520083202 , p. 201
personal data
SURNAME Duhamel, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Valmondois , France
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 2014
Place of death Valmondois