Marcel Frémiot
Marcel Frémiot (born February 29, 1920 in Paris , † January 19, 2018 in Marseille ) was a French composer .
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Marcel Frémiot completed piano and organ training and studied counterpoint and harmony at the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen and Noël Gallon ; he was also a student of René Leibowitz .
From 1950 to 1962 Frémiot was artistic director of the Le Chant du Monde publishing house , then at Harmonia Mundi , where he edited the Orgues historiques collection . From 1966 he was Professor of Music History at the Conservatory of Marseille . In 1968, at the suggestion of Pierre Barbizet , he set up the first class for electroacoustic music at a French conservatory. From 1969 to 1983 he was a lecturer at the Université d'Aix-Marseille .
In 1970 Frémiot founded the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille (GEMEM), and in 1984 the Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille (MIM). From 1985 to 1986 he was a lecturer at the University of Aix-en-Provence . In 1989 he became honorary professor at the Conservatoire National de Région in Marseille, and in 1990 director of the MIM
Frémiot composed works for an audio-visual realization, including Tobie et Sarah (1961), Le mystère du fils de l'homme (after François Mauriac , 1961), David, roi d'Israël (1969) and Abraham , as well as works for traditional ones and electroacoustic instruments, choral music and scenic works, including incidental music to Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi (1946) and the unfinished opera Le Chateau , based on Franz Kafka (1947–48).
Web links
- Biography and catalog raisonné (French)
- Homepage of Frémiot (French)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frémiot, Marcel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 29, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th January 2018 |
| Place of death | Marseille |