Antoine Duhamel
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)
- 1964: Tim and Struppi and the blue oranges (Tintin et les oranges bleues)
- 1964: Weird charm and great opportunities (La chance)
- 1965: Le voleur du Tibidabo
- 1965: eleven o'clock at night (Pierrot le fou)
- 1966: Only one woman on board (The Sailor from Gibraltar)
- 1966: chimney no.4 (La voleuse)
- 1966: Mademoiselle
- 1967: Hunting (Un homme à abattre)
- 1967: The 7 masks of judoka (Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka)
- 1967: Weekend '
- 1968: stolen kisses (meringues volés)
- 1969: The Secret of the False Bride (La sirène du Mississippi)
- 1969: A summer in France (La promesse)
- 1969: D'Artagnan (TV series)
- 1970: table and bed (Domicile conjugale)
- 1970: A bull sees red (Un condé)
- 1973: Dakota
- 1974: The haircut (La coupe à dix Francs)
- 1974: When the festival begins ... (Que la fête commence ...) - arrangements
- 1975: The Acrobat (L'acrobate)
- 1977: The barricade of Point du Jour (La barricade du Point du Jour)
- 1978: Glass cages (Mais ou et donc Ornicar?)
- 1978: Roland (Le chanson de Roland)
- 1979: Death Watch (La mort en direct)
- 1979: Return to the Beloved (Le retour à la bien-aimée)
- 1979: Who holds the reins; also: The French coup (Le mors aux dents)
- 1989: El sueño del mono loco
- 1990: Daddy nostalgia
- 1993: Belle Epoque
- 1994: Dieu sait quoi - God knows what (Dieu sait quoi)
- 1996: Malena (Malena es une nombre de Tango)
- 1996: Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances (Ridicule)
- 1998: The girl of your dreams (La niña de tus ojos)
- 2001: The one from across the street (Ceux d'en face)
- 2002: Laissez-sasser
- 2003: Since Otar left ... (Depuis qu 'Otar est parti)
- 2006: Monsieur Max
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
- Literature by and about Antoine Duhamel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Antoine Duhamel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary for Antoine Duhamel in: Liberation , September 11, 2014 , accessed on September 11, 2014
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary for Antoine Duhamel in: Le Monde of September 11, 2014 , accessed on September 12, 2014
- ↑ Bruno Lesprit: Antoine Duhamel, compositeur: "Le pastiche m'est naturel". Interview, lemonde.fr, February 7, 2006, accessed September 12, 2014
- ^ Royal S. Brown: Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music. University of California Press, Berkeley 1994, ISBN 0520083202 , p. 201
personal data | |
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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 |