Jacqueline Fontyn

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Jacqueline Fontyn (born December 27, 1930 in Antwerp ) is a contemporary Belgian composer , pianist and music teacher .

Life

At the age of 5 she began her piano studies with Ignace Bolotine. At the age of 9 she composed her first small pieces. At the age of 14 she decided to become a composer. She continued her piano studies with Marcel Maas, studied music theory and composition in Brussels with Marcel Quinet and in Paris with Schoenberg's student Max Deutsch , who introduced her to twelve-tone music. In Paris she met Denijs Dille, a theologian and music expert, a former friend of Béla Bartók . Through Bartók she discovered masterpieces of twentieth century music. She also studied orchestral conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna and graduated from the Belgian Chapelle musicale Reine Élisabeth in 1959 with a diploma. She later met personalities such as Goffredo Petrassi , Witold Lutosławski and Henri Dutilleux .

She founded a mixed choir Le Tympan in Antwerp and conducted it for seven years. For two years she conducted the symphonic orchestra of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium .

From 1963 to 1970 she taught at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp in the subject counterpoint . From 1970 to 1990 she was a professor at the Brussels Conservatory , where she first taught counterpoint and later composition. She has also taught at Georgetown University , American University, and the University of Maryland in Washington, DC, and has worked as a music teacher in Baltimore , Los Angeles , Cairo , Seoul, and Tel Aviv .

Jacqueline Fontyn has received numerous honors and awards. Around 15 compositions have been awarded national and international prizes, including the Prix ​​de Rome , the Prix ​​Óscar Esplá 1962 in Alicante , Spain , and the Prix ​​Arthur Honegger in 1988. She was also given the nobility in 1993 by the Belgian king in recognition of her artistic merits raised; since 1996 she has been a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Belgium .

In terms of composition, the style of Jacqueline Fontyn has continuously developed over the years. Her own way of expression is a game of various sound timbres and sonorities or of controlled aleatorics. The musical language is personal, contemporary and very expressive.

Works

Works for orchestra

  • 1956 Danceries
  • 1957 Vent d'Est for accordion and 12 strings
  • 1957 Mouvements concertants for two pianos and strings
  • 1964 Six ébauches
  • 1965 Galaxie for chamber orchestra
  • 1970 Colloque for wind quintet and strings
  • 1971 Per Archi for string orchestra
  • 1972 Evoluon
  • 1977 Quatre sites
  • 1978 Halo for harp and 16 instruments or chamber orchestra
  • 1979 Ephémères for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
  • 1982 Créneaux
  • 1983 Arachné
  • 1988 In the green shade
  • 1991 Colinda for violoncello and orchestra
  • 1992 On a landscape by Turner
  • 1996 L'anneau de jade
  • 1998 Goeie Hoop
  • 2000 ... it's an ocean ... for flute, harpsichord and strings
  • 2001 Au fil des siècles
  • 2002 A (little) winter night's dream

Works for chamber music

  • 1981 Mime 7 for flute or clarinet or saxophone and piano
  • 1983 Controverse for clarinet or bass clarinet or tenor saxophone and drums
  • 1983 Pro & Antiverb (e) s for soprano and violoncello
  • 1997 Battement d'ailes for saxophone quartet
  • 2005 Eolus for piccolo, three flutes, alto flute and bass flute

Works for piano

  • 1954 Capriccio
  • 1963 ballad
  • 1964 Mosaici
  • 1980 Le Gong
  • 1980 Bulles
  • 1982 Aura, homage to Brahms
  • 2003 Diurnes
  • 1971 Spirales for 2 pianos
  • 2004 Hamadryades piano four hands
  • 2005 Kobold Pianola / Phonola

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1975 Frises for symphonic wind orchestra
    1. Mobile e sfumato
    2. Espressivo
    3. Vivace
  • 1982 Créneaux for symphonic wind orchestra
    1. Assemblée
    2. Contemplation (meditation)
    3. Faisceaux (bundle of light)
    4. Météores
    5. Brouillard (fog)
    6. Choral varié
  • 1992 Aratoro (borrowed from the Māori language and stands for "path to be discovered") for symphonic wind orchestra with 2 large percussion groups and piano
  • 1993 Blake's mirror for mezzo-soprano and symphonic wind orchestra
    1. The Angel
    2. The Fly
    3. The tiger
    4. song

Other works

  • 1986 Cheminement for soprano and 8 performers

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist of the Month October 2013: Jacqueline Fontyn - composer. Center for Gender Research of the KUG , accessed on April 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fontyn, Jacqueline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian composer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Belgium