Gilbert Amy
Gilbert Amy (born August 29, 1936 in Paris ) is a French composer and conductor .
biography
Amy studied at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1954 , where he was a student of Simone Plé-Caussade , Henriette Puig-Roget , Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod . In 1957 he met Pierre Boulez , who commissioned him to compose a piece for the Orchester du Domaine Musical . The Mouvements were premiered in 1958 in Darmstadt by the ensemble specializing in contemporary music .
From 1958 to 1961 Amy was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . The following year he began his career as a conductor with an engagement at the Parisian Theater Odéon . In 1967 he succeeded Pierre Boulez as director of the Domaine Musical concert series , which he directed until its end in 1973. In addition, he conducted the great French symphony orchestras and the BBC Symphony Orchestra , the Hamburg Radio Orchestra , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchester de la Suisse Romande .
In 1976 Amy founded the Nouvel orchester philharmonique de Radio-France , which he directed until 1981 . Since 1982 he has taught music analysis at Yale University , and since 1984 he has been director of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Lyon . In 1999, his opera Le Premier Cercle was premiered at the Opéra National de Lyon .
As a composer he was a. a. with the Grand Prix National de la Musique (1979), the Grand Prix de SACEM (1983), the Grand Prix Musical de la Ville de Paris (1986), the Prix du Disque de l ' Académie Charles-Cros and the Prix de la Critique Musicale excellent. Amy has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 2013, succeeding Serge Nigg .
Works
- Variations for flute, clarinet, cello and piano, 1956
- Cantate brève for soprano, flute, vibraphone and xylomarimba based on poems by Federico García Lorca , 1957
- Oeil de fumée for soprano and orchestra based on a poem by Louis Parrot , 1957
- Mouvements for Ensemble, 1958
- Sonata for piano, 1960
- Epigrams for piano, 1961
- Variable Inventions I et II for four instruments, 1961
- Cuivres, fanfare anniversaire for two trumpets and trombones, 1962
- Diaphonies for two ensembles, 1962
- Alpha-Beth for wind sextet, 1964
- Cahiers d'épigrammes for piano, 1964
- Verse for soprano and orchestra based on a poem by René Char , 1965
- Cycle for percussion sextet, 1966
- Chant for large orchestra, 1967
- Relay , 1967
- Trajectoires for violin and orchestra, 1968
- Triad for orchestra, 1968
- Cette Etoile enseigne à s'incliner for male choir, two pianos, instrumental ensemble and tape based on Dante's Divine Comedy , 1970
- Récitatif, air et variation , 1970
- Transatlantiques Répons for oboe, 1970
- ... D'un Désastre obscur for mezzo-soprano and clarinet, 1971
- Jeux et formes for oboe and instrumental ensemble, 1971
- D'un Espace déployé for lyric soprano, two pianos and orchestra, 1972
- Refrains for orchestra, 1972
- Jeux for oboe quartet, 1973
- Sonata Pian'e Forte for soprano, mezzo-soprano and three instrumental groups, 1973
- Seven Sites , 1975
- Après ... d'un désastre obscur for mezzo-soprano and small ensemble, 1976
- Echos XIII for four soloists and ensemble, 1976
- Sept Bagatelles for organ, 1977
- Trois Etudes for flute, 1977
- Adagio et stretto for orchestra, 1979
- Chin'Amin Cha'Anamin , 1979
- Une Saison en enfer for soprano, piano, percussion and tape, 1980
- Quasi Scherzando for cello, 1981
- Quasi une toccata for guitar, 1981
- Ecrits sur toiles for speakers and small ensemble based on letters from Rainer Maria Rilke , 1983
- Missa cum jubilo for vocal quartet, children's choir, mixed choir and orchestra, 1983
- D'Après “Ecrits sur toiles” for chamber orchestra, 1984
- La Variation ajoutée , for ensemble and tape, 1984
- Trois Interludes for violin and two percussion, 1984
- Prelude for Orchestra, 1985
- En Trio for clarinet, violin and piano, 1986
- 5/16 for flute, 1986,
- Obliques I for piano, 1987
- Trombones , Etude for four trombones, 1987
- Choros for counter tenor, bass-baritone, large mixed choir and orchestra, 1989
- Mémoire for cello and piano, 1989
- Obliques III for piano, 1989
- Orchestrahl for large orchestra, 1989
- Obliques II for piano, 1991
- Quatuor à cordes , 1992
- Symphonies pour cinq cuivres , 1992
- Trois Inventions for organ, 1993-2001
- Le Temps du souffle II for saxophone, trombone and violin, 1994
- Trois Scènes for orchestra, 1996
- La Stravinskienne for marimba, 1996
- Le Premier Cercle , Opera, 1999
- Concerto for cello and orchestra, 1999–2000
- Mouvement , 2000
- Etude variation for piano, 2001
- Petit thème varié for one or two violins, 2002
- 6 duos for violins, 2002
- Adagio for violin and piano, 2002
- Le temps du souffle III , 2003
- D'ombre et lumière for alto solo, 2003
- Concerto for piano and orchestra, 2003–05
- Après Ein ... Es Prelude for Cello Quartet, 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Gilbert Amy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Gilbert Amy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amy, Gilbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |