Costin Miereanu

Costin Miereanu (born February 27, 1943 in Bucharest , Romania ) is a French composer and musicologist of Romanian descent.

Life

Miereanu studied from 1960 to 1966 at the Bucharest Music Academy with Alfred Mendelsohn , Dan Constantinescu and Octavian Lazăr Cosma . At the summer courses for new music in Darmstadt , he was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen , György Ligeti and Erhard Karkoschka between 1967 and 1969 . In 1977 he became a French citizen. Since 1981 he has been Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics and Art History at the Sorbonne.

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Miereanu composed aleatoric works and works in the style of musique concrète for orchestra and chamber orchestra, often using tape recorders, as well as stage works.

Awards

• 1967 Prize of the European Cultural Foundation & Composition Prize of the Gaudeamus Foundation
• 1974 Prix ​​Enescu & Prix ​​de la Partition Pédagogique of the French Composers' Union (SACEM).

Works

• Monostructure I for two orchestras
• Monostructure II for strings, brass and tape
• The end is crowned by the work for piano and six groups of instruments
• In the night of the times , aleatory music for instruments and tape
• Farben der Zeit I for string orchestra
• Farben der Zeit II for string quartet and tape
• Farben der Zeit III for double string quartet and double bass
• Rooms II for string orchestra, piano and tape
• Last room , aleatory music for choir, instrument groups and tape
• Space beyond yesterday , aleatoric music for chamber orchestra
• L'Avenir est dans les œufs , Opera, 1980
• La Porte du paradis , lyric fantasy, 1991
• De humani corporis fabbrica , Ballet, 1992
• Orison , ballet, 1999