Jacques Castérède
Jacques Castérède (born April 10, 1926 in Paris , † April 6, 2014 in Dijon ) was a French composer.
Life
After graduating from Lycée Buffon , Castérède studied at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1944 to 1953 with Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen . In 1953 he won the Prix de Rome with his cantata “ La Boîte de Pandore ” . The prize money allowed him to stay in the Villa Medici (Rome) from 1954 to 1958 .
From 1960 to 1995 he was professor in various subjects at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1988 and 1998 he gave composition courses at the Central Conservatory of Beijing , mainly related to contemporary French music.
Works
- First string symphony , 1952
- Wind quintet , 1953
- Dance suite , 1953
- La Cour des miracles , chamber opera, 1954
- First concert for piano and string orchestra , 1954
- Cinq danses symphoniques , 1956
- Suite en trois mouvements à la mémoire d'Arthur Honegger for orchestra, 1957
- Le Livre de Job , oratorio for speakers, singers, mixed choir and orchestra, 1958
- Sonatine pour Trombone et Piano , 1958
- Basket ball , ballet, 1959
- Le fil dAriane , symphonic suite, 1959
- L'Autre bout du monde , cantata, 1960
- La Chanson du Mal-aimé , cantata, 1960
- 2nd symphony , 1960
- Sophie-Dorothée , incidental music, 1962
- Brève de Saint Louis fair , 1964
- La Mythomane ou La femme et sa fable , ballet, 1965
- Second concerto for piano and orchestra , 1970
- First concert for guitar and orchestra , 1973
- Hymn sur un poème de Walt Whitman , 1973
- Arithmophony for percussion ensemble , 1974
- Pianology for three pianos, 1977
- Liturgies de la Vie et de la Mort , 1980
- Jusqu'à mon dernier souffle for wind orchestra, percussion and speaker based on texts by Victor Hugo and Paul Éluard , 1986
- Second concert for guitar, string orchestra and percussion , 1986
- Domine, Dominus noster for organ, 1990
- Pour un Tombeau de Frédéric Chopin for piano, 1991
- La Voie Ecarlate. Passion de Sainte Foy , Opera, 2000
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacques Castérède in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jacques Castérède est mort. Obituary on qobuz.com of April 8, 2014 (French)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castérède, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 2014 |
| Place of death | Dijon , France |