François Morel (composer)

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François Morel (born March 14, 1926 in Montreal ; † January 14, 2018 ) was a Canadian composer , pianist and conductor .

Morel studied from 1944 to 1953 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec with Claude Champagne , Jean Papineau-Couture , Isabelle Delorme , Arthur Letondal , Germaine Malépart and Edmond Trudel . His friend Gérald Gagnier introduced him to the beginnings of orchestral conducting.

In 1953 Leopold Stokowski performed his Antiphonie in Carnegie Hall , making him known as a composer. In 1954 he partnered with Serge Garant and Gilles Tremblay to perform contemporary Canadian and European music. In 1956 the group Musique de notre temps emerged from this, to which Otto Joachim and Jeanne Landry belonged alongside Morel and Garant .

Morel worked for the CBC from 1956 through the late 1970s . He produced the festivals program for radio ; In addition to compositions for the radio, he wrote the soundtracks for several television series. He also taught composition at the Institut Nazareth from 1959 to 1961 and was director of the Académie de musique du Québec (AMQ) from 1972 to 1978 .

From 1979 to 1980 Morel taught orchestration and composition at the University of Montreal , and from the same year also at Laval University .

Numerous works by Morel were premiered by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra : in 1960 under Igor Markevitch the composition Boréal , which was influenced by Edgar Varèses , in 1964 under Thomas Schipper's L'Étoile noire based on the painting of the same name by Paul-Émile Borduas , in 1978 under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Jeux at the opening of the 78th session of the International Olympic Committee and in 1988 under Charles Dutoit the Aux couleurs du ciel, inspired by the book Poussières d'étoiles by the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves .

Works

  • Esquisse , 1947
  • Dyptique for small orchestra / 23 instruments, 1948
  • Ronde enfantine for piano, 1949
  • Quatre Chants japonais , 1949
  • String Quartet No. 1 , 1952
  • Antiphony for orchestra, 1953
  • Cassation for wind septet, 1954
  • Deux Études de sonorité for piano, 1954
  • Prière for organ, 1954
  • Symphonies for wind ensemble and percussion, 1956
  • Les Rivages perdus , 1956
  • Rhythmologue for percussion, 1957, 1970
  • Boréal for orchestra, 1959
  • Rituel de l'espace for orchestra, 1959
  • L'Étoile noire (Tombeau de Borduas) for orchestra, 1962
  • Quintet , 1962
  • String Quartet No. 2 , 1963
  • Alleluia for Organ, 1964-68
  • Etude en forme de toccate , 1965
  • Prismes-Anamorphoses for orchestra 1967
  • Nuvattuq , 1967
  • Départs for drums, guitar, harp and 14 strings, 1969
  • IIKKII (Froidure) for 18 instruments, 1971
  • Radiance for orchestra 1972
  • Me Duele España for guitar, 1975
  • Melisma for piano and orchestra, 1980
  • Aux marges du silence , 1982
  • Duolet I for flutes, 1982
  • L'Oiseau-Demain for 12th flutes, two clarinets and percussion, 1982
  • Divergences , 1983
  • Aux couleurs du ciel , 1985-7
  • Talea (Couleur) for flute, oboe and clarinet, 1984
  • Aerea for winds, 1986
  • Fulgurance I for flute, gorn, cello, piano, harp and percussion, 1986
  • Lyre de crystal for percussion, 1986
  • Les Voix de l'ombre for wind instruments, 1987
  • Duolet II for flutes, 1988
  • De subitement lointain , 1989
  • Figures-Segments-Ellipses for two clarinets and string quartet, 1990
  • Fulgurance II for alto flute, oboe d'Amore, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello, piano, harp and percussion, 1990
  • Paysage dépaysé for two violins, viola and two cellos, 1990
  • Distance intime for flute and piano, 1991
  • Stèle for clarinet, 1991

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personal data
SURNAME Morel, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2018