Gérard Grisey

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Gérard Grisey (born June 17, 1946 in Belfort , † November 11, 1998 in Paris ) was a French composer and member of the group l'Itinéraire (the route).

Life

Gérard Grisey was born on June 17, 1946 in Belfort, France. His musical occupation resulted in his first compositional attempts at the age of nine. In 1963 he studied accordion at the Trossingen University Institute for Music , before moving to the Paris Conservatory in 1965 . There he received classical training in harmony and counterpoint as well as musicology and piano. He attended Olivier Messiaen's composition class from 1968 to 1972 , took lessons with Henri Dutilleux at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in 1968 and studied electro-acoustic techniques with Jean-Étienne Marie .

During his stay in the Villa Medici from 1972 to 1974 he met the poet Christian Guez Ricord and discovered the music of Giacinto Scelsi for himself . In 1972 he took part in the seminars of György Ligeti , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis during the Darmstadt summer courses . But he later said that their influence did not last. In 1973 Grisey was not only one of the leading figures in the founding of the group l'Itinéraire , but also with their ensemble l'Itinéraire , whose task it was to ensure high-quality interpretations of their own works.

Following his stay in the Villa Medici, he attended courses on acoustics with Émile Leipp at the Université de Jussieu until 1975, which were to form the basis of his later investigations into sound phenomena. From 1982 he taught in Berkeley at the University of California . In 1986 he was appointed professor of instrumentation and composition at the Paris Conservatory. He died unexpectedly of an aneurysm rupture on November 11, 1998 in Paris.

Alongside Tristan Murail , Grisey is one of the main representatives of spectral music in new music.

student

Arnulf Herrmann , Fabien Lévy , Magnus Lindberg , Mark Andre , Fausto Romitelli , Jörn Arnecke , Régis Campo, Brice Pauset , Lucia Ronchetti , Eckart Beinke , Éric Tanguy, Jean Luc Hervé, Xu Yi, Masakazu Natsuda, Petar Klanac, Franck Bedrossian, Ramon Lazkano.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Passacaille for accordion (1966)
  • Charm for clarinet in A or B flat major (1969)
  • Espaces Acoustiques , cycle of 6 pieces for different instrumentations (1974/85)
    • Prologue for viola (1976)
    • Périodes for seven musicians (1974)
    • Partiels for sixteen or eighteen musicians (1975)
    • Modulations for 33 musicians (1976/77)
    • Transitoires for large orchestra (1980/81)
    • Epilogue for four solo horns and large orchestra (1985)
  • Talea (1986)
  • Le Temps et l'Écume (1988-1989)
  • L'Icône paradoxale (1994)
  • Vortex Temporum (1994–96) for piano and 5 instrumentalists: piccolo / flute / alto flute / bass flute, clarinet / bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello.
    1.  Time of the people (“Time of language and breathing”, dedicated to Gérard Zinsstag ) - 2.  Time of the whales (“the spectral time, the rhythms of sleep”, dedicated to Salvatore Sciarrino ) - 3.  Time of the birds (“extreme contracted time, where the figures blur ", dedicated to Helmut Lachenmann )
  • Quatre Chants pour franchir le Seuil (1998), his last work

Fonts (selection)

  • About the emergence of sound ... In: Ferienkurse '78 (= Darmstadt Contributions to New Music, 1978), pp. 16–23.
  • La musique, le devenir des sons. In: Darmstadt Contributions to New Music. Vol. 21, 1982, pp. 16-23.
  • Tempus ex machina. Reflections on the musical time. In: new territory. Volume 3, 1982-83, pp. 190-202.

literature

  • Hervé, Jean-Luc: Dans le vertige de la durée (Vortex Temporum de Gérard Grisey). L'Harmattan, Paris 2001.
  • Kornysheva, Katja: “I'm not a naturalist…” Gérard Grisey's sound aesthetics. In: MusikTexte. Vol. 92, 2002, pp. 31-36.
  • Baillet, Jérôme: Gérard Grisey (Fondements d'une écriture). L'Harmattan, Paris 2000.
  • Haselböck, Lukas : Gérard Grisey: Making the inaudible audible. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2009.
  • Tadday, Ulrich (Ed.): Music Concepts 176 / 177. Gérard Grisey. edition text + kritik, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86916-562-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the RPS award winners , accessed on February 25, 2011

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Grisey, Gerard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfort
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1998
Place of death Paris