Michel Delgiudice

Michel Delgiudice (* 1924 in Nice , France ; † December 2006 ) was a French composer and conductor .

He completed his music studies at the Conservatory of Nice with a major in clarinet and harmony . He also made private studies at the César Franck School in Paris with Henri Challan and Pierre Lantier .

He then joined a military music corps as a clarinetist . He quickly passed the military music director's examination and was then assigned to the music corps in Colomb-Béchar , Algeria , from 1959 to 1962 as a conductor. From 1962 to 1969 he was then transferred to a musical corps as a conductor in Marseille . Then he was deployed to two other music corps of the French troops in Germany: 1969 to 1971 in Berlin and 1971 to 1973 in Konstanz. In 1973 he retired.

From 1976 he was director of the music school in Amboise on the Loire. Since then he has also devoted himself increasingly to the enrichment of the wind orchestra literature.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

• Marche due Marechal de Saxe
• Vaillant 46 (with sung refrain "Passant par Paris")
• Modern suite
• partita
• Ogives et Vetraux three-part mass for wind orchestra

Chamber music and educational works

• Abuto for tuba and piano
• Ali-Baba for tuba and piano
• Dix Petits Textes for tuba and piano
• Douze Etudes rhythmiques et melodiques for bass trombone,
• Gargantua for tuba and piano
• Jeune Sax for alto saxophone
• Jouer A Deux
• La Baleine Bleue for tuba and piano
• Lafitan for flute and piano
• Les 4 morceaux ensemble for tuba and piano
  1. L'antre de Polypheme
  2. Danse de l'elephant
  3. Le petit baobab
  4. Le petit mammouth
• L'Enfant a la flûte for flute and piano
• Puissance 4 for tuba and piano
• Superman for tuba and piano