Noël Lancien
Noël Lancien (born December 24, 1934 in Paris , † July 23, 1999 in Mauvages ) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher.
Lancien, eight of eleven children of a Breton shoemaker, was musically shaped by his time as a member of a radio choir under the direction of Marcel Couraud and his teachers Jacques Besson , Jean and Robert Planel and Norbert Dufourcq . At the Conservatoire de Paris he was a student of Annette Dieudonné (Solfège), Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur , Henri Challan , Simone Plé-Caussade (music education), Marcel Beaufils (aesthetics) and Olivier Messiaen . He later studied composition with Tony Aubin and Darius Milhaud and orchestral conducting with Louis Fourestier .
In 1958 he won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the one-act opera Une mort de Don Quichotte . After his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome and his military service, he became musical advisor to the Club Français du Disque , and in 1964 director of the Ecole Nationale de Musique et d'Art dramatique in Toulouse, which he fundamentally reformed. In the same year he married Jeannine Valentin , the daughter of the pianist Germaine Thyssens-Valentin , who had made a name for herself as an interpreter of Gabriel Fauré's works .
In 1970 Lancien took over the management of the Nancy Conservatory. Here he set up courses for the introduction to music for small children, classes for saxophone, drums, classical guitar, harpsichord and choir, for orchestra and orchestra conducting, music analysis, harmony theory and counterpoint and founded a jazz big band. In 1986 the institute, which had developed into the leading center for musical training in eastern France, moved to the larger premises of a former tobacco factory.
He was also active as a conductor in Nancy and internationally. His repertoire included the works of the Classical and Romantic periods. He performed works by Mozart and Haydn , Beethoven and Brahms , Berlioz , Debussy , Ravel , Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen and conducted world premieres of works by contemporary composers. He has worked with soloists such as Maurice André , Pierre Barbizet , Youri Boukoff , Roger Bourdin , Jacqueline Brumaire , Annie Challan , Xavier Darasse , Christian Ferras , Jean-Jacques Kantorow , Alexandre Lagoya , Frédéric Lodéon , Mady Mesplé , Nathan Milstein , Pierre Sancan and Daniel Wayenberg together.
From his preoccupation with Gregorian chant, the book La Modalité grégorienne was written in 1988 . In 1997 he retired from his work as a music teacher and conductor.
Works
- Deux sonnets de Shakespeare for strings, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and mezzo-soprano, 1954
- Le bal des champs de M. Desbordes-Valmor for voice and piano, 1955
- Trois Ballades de François Villon for four-part mixed choir a cappella, 1955
- Chanson de Clément Marot for choir, 1956
- Suite bretonne for flute, oboe, harp and string quartet, 1956
- Couples fervents et doux de A. de Noailles for voice and piano, 1956
- Le mariage forcé , cantata based on Molière, 1956
- Petite Valse for piano, 1956
- Toccata for piano, 1956
- 24 harmonisations de chansons populaires for choir, 1956–74
- 22ème Ode de Ronsard for voice and piano, 1957
- La Fée Urgèle , cantata, 1957
- Vantardises d'un marin breton ivre de Max Jacob for voice and piano, 1958
- Sonata for piano and cello, 1958
- Chantefleurs et Chantefables de Robert Desnos , 1958
- Le cimetière des fous de Paul Eluard for bass and orchestra, 1958
- Une mort de Don Quichotte , opera in one act, 1958
- Petite valse for string quartet, 1959
- Thème et variations for cello and piano, 1960
- Quatre prières à la Vierge for soprano and orchestra, 1961
- Concerto for trumpet and string orchestra, 1961
- Vers à mettre en chant de Boileau for baritone and orchestra, 1968
- Première position for piano, 1968
- Vocalises for trumpet and piano, 1968
- Fuguette for piano, 1984
- Toute Petite Suite for guitar, 1986
- Ballade des Dames de Nancy d'après François Villon for four-part mixed choir, 1993
- Montes Gelboë, in memoriam Robert Planel for saxophone and piano, 1994
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| SURNAME | Lancien, Noël |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1999 |
| Place of death | Mauvages |