Jean Pacalet

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Jean Pacalet with his accordion

Jean Pacalet (born March 10, 1951 in Chambéry ; † July 7, 2011 in Berlin ) was a French composer and musician (accordion). He grew up in Brazzaville in the Congo and received musical training at the Chambéry Conservatory until 1979. Since 1996 he lived in Berlin.

Artistic career

Pacalet began studying at the Moscow Conservatory of Music in 1980. He played his first concerts in Moscow and Cologne in 1986, followed by concerts with the German-French symphony orchestra Polymusicales in Bolléne in 1989. 1993 saw the premiere of the concert program Fremdegehen with Barbara Thalheim , with whom they appeared in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and France. In 1995 the opera Ce soir, on tue le cochon, composed by Pacalet, premiered in Paris. In the following years he gave numerous concerts in many European countries. Pacalet played the solo accordion at the world premiere of Philippe Hersant's opera The Black Monk with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in May 2006.

Since 1993 he has worked with the singer-songwriter Barbara Thalheim .

Since autumn 2011 the composer Erik Kross has been working on a catalog raisonné and digitizing Pacalet's sheet music.

Awards

  • 1979: 1st prize in the French national composers' competition

Works (selection)

Solo literature
  • 1981: 7 pieces enfantines
  • 1985: Une Nuit á Montmartre / One night in Montmarte
  • 1987-1991: Paysage sous la Mer
  • 1994: Somewhere in Thuringia (Quelque part en Thuringe)
  • 1995: Berlin-Toccata
  • 1997: Nocturne
  • 1997: Rondo Afrika, version for accordion solo
  • 1997: Nationale 7 (Landstrasse No. 7)
  • 2002: 7 Tableaux pour une Naissance / 7 Pictures for a birth / 7 Pictures for a birth
  • 2008: Satie's faction

Web links

Commons : Jean Pacalet  - Collection of Images


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see under http://www.jean-pacalet.de
personal data
SURNAME Pacalet, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Chambery
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2011
Place of death Berlin