Guy Lacour

Guy Lacour , actually Guillaume Lacour , (born June 8, 1932 in Soissons , Département Aisne , † May 15, 2013 ) was a French composer and tenor saxophonist .

Life

He received his first music lessons at the age of 10 in his hometown. He joined local orchestras and won his first diploma from the Confédération Musicale de France . Then he went to the Conservatory of Versailles and studied with Marcel Josse . From 1950 he studied saxophone with Marcel Mule and chamber music with Fernand Oubradous at the Conservatoire de Paris .

After completing his studies, his musical career developed in three different directions. As a pop saxophonist he played in many leading groups of the time as well as in leading music halls , cabarets and variety shows ( Lido , Moulin Rouge , Folies Bergère etc.). At the same time, as a saxophonist, he proved that he could also interpret classical works with style. This was shown by numerous concerts on the radio, with symphony orchestras and even in the opera. In 1961 he became a member of the well-known Marcel Mule Quartet as a tenor saxophonist. This even led him to perform concerts and recordings with the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Herbert von Karajan or the Orchester de Paris under the direction of Daniel Barenboim as a soloist. When the Marcel Mule Quartet broke up, he played for several years with the Ensemble de Saxophones Français

His teaching career began in 1975. He taught saxophone at various conservatories in the Paris region . In the end, he only retained one position as a professor at the Ecole Nationale de Musique Edgar Varèse in Gennevilliers , Hauts-de-Seine department , but became director of the Conservatoire Municipal de in the same year when he concentrated on the position in Gennevilliers Mantes-la-Ville , Yvelines department .

He was also a member of many juries for orchestra and saxophone competitions. He is a founding member of the Association des Saxophonistes de France , where he later became an honorary member because of his services. The Selmer Company in Mantes-la-Ville also won him over as a technical consultant and instrument tester.

In 1992 he stopped all his other activities in order to devote himself to the third aspect of his musical career, composition . His first works date back to 1963. Many of his works still serve as compulsory pieces at national and international competitions.

Works

Works for orchestra

• 1972 Hommage to Jacques Ibert for alto saxophone and orchestra

Chamber music

• 1971 Suite en duo pour 2 saxophones or 2 hautbois or 2 clarinettes
  1. Allegro
  2. Aria
  3. Petite fugue
  4. Largo puis Scherzetto
• Belle époque
• Chanson Modale for flute and piano
• Deux SI, Deux La for flute and piano
• Divertissement pour saxophone-alto et percussion
• Double Jeu soprano and tenor saxophone duets
• Juste au cor pour cor en fa et piano
• Méditation pour ensemble de saxophones (sopranino ad lib, SSAAATTTBB, basse ad lib)
• Moments partagés pour 2 clarinettes
• Noctilène
• Pièce Concertante for tenor saxophone
• Quatuor Helios flutes and / or string trio
• Quatuor pour saxophones
  1. elegy
  2. scherzo
  3. Rondo Final

Educational literature a. Study material

• 2002 28 études-impromptus sur les modes à transpositions limitées d ' Olivier Messiaen pour trompette
• 24 Easy Atonal Etudes for Saxophone
• 56 Etudes Récréatives pour Saxophone en deux volumes
• 28 Etudes sur les Modes d' Olivier Messiaen
• 50 Etudes Faciles & Progressives Cahier 1
• 50 Etudes Faciles & Progressives Cahier 2
• 100 Dèchiffrages manuscrits
• 12 esquisses
• 8 études brillantes pour saxophone
• 22 dodecaprices for basson
• 22 Dodécaphonies pour Basson

literature

• Guy Lacour , in Sax , Mule & Co , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , H & D, 2004, pp. 141-142.