Pierre Durand (composer)

Pierre Durand (born April 6, 1935 in Paris , † August 31, 1998 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés ) was a French composer and music teacher .

Pierre Durand studied piano with Vlado Perlemuter , harmony with Pierre Revel , counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon and composition with Tony Aubin at the Paris Conservatory . In 1961 he won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata La Loreley based on a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire . A study visit to Casa Velázquez in Madrid followed.

He taught solfège at various music schools in Paris for thirty years . He was also assistant in a solfège class at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1971 to 1993 and has taught at the École Normale de Musique on Boulevard Malesherbes and at the Municipal Conservatory of Paris since 1980 .

Durand composed mainly piano and chamber music, as well as some music pedagogical works and film music.

Works

• Moment musical for cornet and piano, 1969
• 22 Leçons de lecture de rythme et d'indépendance pour piano ou claviers , 1974
• Dialogue for bass saxhorn, tuba or bass trombone and piano, 1975
• Parcours for bass saxhorn and piano, 1975
• Tournevalse for bass saxhorn and piano, 1978
• Variations for cornet or trumpet and piano, 1981
• Étude de concert for piano solo, 1983
• Tambourin de Printemps for cello and piano, 1983
• Tendre histoire for flute and piano, 1983
• Rêverie for oboe and piano, 1987
• Saxo véloce for alto or tenor saxophone and piano, 1989
• Tempo giusto for piano solo, 1990
• Vers la forêt for horn and piano, 1990
• Sarments for bassoon and piano, 1995
• Deux Pièces brèves for double bass and piano, released 2000
• Petite histoire for piano solo
• Murmure for piano solo
• Rêverie for violin and piano
• Music for the documentary La Terre se repose by Henri Theron