Emmanuel Nunes
Emmanuel Nunes (born August 31, 1941 in Lisbon , † September 2, 2012 in Paris , France ) was a Portuguese composer and member of the group l'Itinéraire (the route).
Life
Nunes studied harmony and counterpoint at the Lisbon Music Academy and took part in the Darmstadt summer courses for new music with Pierre Boulez (1965) and Henri Pousseur (1964). He moved to Paris in 1964 and a year later to Cologne , where he studied composition with Henri Pousseur and Karlheinz Stockhausen , electronic music with Jaap Spek and phonetics with Georg Heike . In the 1970s he received various scholarships and several prizes such as the Premier Prix d'Esthetique Musicale at the Paris Conservatory .
Since the 1980s he has taught himself at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (2002). From 1986 to 1992 he held a teaching position for composition at the Institute for New Music at the Freiburg University of Music . In 1991 Nunes was appointed Comendador da Ordem de Santiago da Espada by the Portuguese President . 1996 appointment as Dr. hc from the Université de Paris VIII. In 1999 he received the CIM Prize from UNESCO and in 2000 the Pessoa Prize. From 1992 to 2006 Nunes was Professor of Composition at the Paris Conservatory.
Works
Opera
- 2007: The fairy tale [Le Conte, dit le Serpent vert], opera in a prologue and two acts. Libretto by Emmanuel Nunes (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Das Märchen).
Orchestral works
- 1977: Ruf - orchestral work with tape
- 1979: Hesed II
- 1978–1985: Tif'Ereth - for six solo instruments and six orchestral groups with two conductors
- 1991: Quodlibet - for percussion sextet, instrumental ensemble and orchestra with seven soloists and two conductors
- 1994: Hesed IV - for string quartet and orchestra
- 2000/2001: Musivus
- 1981/2002: Night Music II
Ensemble music
- 1972: Omens II
- 1986: Wandlungen - work for ensemble and live electronics
- 1986: Early music
- 1987: Duktus
- 1992: clearing I
- 1996: clearing II
- 1979/2005: Hesed I
- 2005: Improvisation I - For a monodrama
- 2006: Épures du serpent vert I
- 2006: Épures du serpent vert II
- 2007: clearing III
- 2007: Épures du serpent vert IV
Vocal works
- 1975-1976: Minnesang
- 1981-1986: Vislumbre
- 1992: Machina Mundi
- 1996: Omnia mutantur nihil interit
Other works
- 1986: Sonata a tre
- 1988: Clivages I and II
- 1983-1989: Aura
- 2005: Improvisation II
- 2006-2007: La main noire
Web links
- Literature by and about Emmanuel Nunes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emmanuel Nunes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography and catalog raisonné at Ricordi Verlag
- Obituary in the FAZ by Gerhard Rohde
- http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00000071/ (in French)
- http://mediatheque.ircam.fr/compositeurs/textes/c00000071/ - Information on Emmanuel Nunes in the Médiathèque des Ircam Paris (in French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Morreu o compositor Emmanuel Nunes
- ↑ Laureado Prémio Pessoa 2000 - Emmanuel Nunes , expresso.pt, accessed August 7, 2019 (Portuguese)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nunes, Emmanuel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 31, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 2012 |
Place of death | Paris |