Pierre Jansen
Pierre Georges Cornil Jansen (born February 28, 1930 in Roubaix ; † August 13, 2015 in Saint-Pierre-Saint-Jean ) was a French composer who was best known for his collaboration as a film composer with the director Claude Chabrol . He composed the music for over 70 cinema, TV films and mini-series, but also orchestral works, chamber music and pieces for piano solo.
Live and act
Born in 1930 in the French city of Roubaix, Pierre Jansen took courses in piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Conservatory of Music in his hometown, and later also in composition and orchestral studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels under the direction of André Souris . From 1953, additional seminars followed in Germany at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In the following years he studied intensively under the supervision of Olivier Messiaen .
In 1958, under the direction of Bruno Maderna, he wrote his first own classical composition, the “Suite Concertante for piano and 14 instruments”. With his versatile musical talent and the classical music repertoire in his luggage, he became an employee at the "Center National de la Recherche Scientifique" in 1959, transcribing lute tablatures for the Corpus des luthistes francais .
In 1960 Jansen met the director Claude Chabrol , and a fruitful collaboration on film music began for over 30 years. Many classics of French film were made, often with a well-rehearsed ensemble of actors such as Serge Bento , Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne in films such as: 1962: The Woman Murderer of Paris ; 1968: two friends ; 1968: The unfaithful woman ; 1970: The Butcher ; 1973: Bloody wedding ; 1975: the innocent with the dirty hands or 1978: blood relatives
After 1982, the musical collaboration between Chabrol's son Matthieu Chabrol continued until his father's death. Since the beginning of the 1990s, Pierre Jansen only accepted film music assignments sporadically, instead teaching composition at music schools, for example at the Paris Conservatory . Jansen mainly concentrated on his own compositions of classical music.
Filmography (selection)
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Discographic notes
- (La Croisade Des Enfants) : Milan (1988)
- (Les Plus Belles Musiques Des Films De Romy Schneider) : Milan (1988)
- (Pierre Jansen - Claude Chabrol - Musiques de Films) : Milan (1989)
- (Film Music Collection Nouvelle Vague!) : Hortensia (1991)
- (Soundtracks Made In France) : CAM (1996)
- (Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol Et Les Autres / La Nouvelle Vague) : Milan (1995)
- (Bandes Originales Des Films de Claude Chabrol) : Universal Music (2002)
- (Les Biches) : Saimel Club (2012)
Classic catalog raisonné
For orchestra:
- Suite en duo pour piano et orchester (orchestration de la Suite pour deux pianos) (1987)
- Eloge de la consonance (1989)
- Litanie pour un éden (1993)
- Une symphony (1995)
- L'an deux mille, la fin d'un millénaire pour chœur et orchester (1999)
- Concerto pour piano et orchestra (2006)
For piano:
- Douze pieces for piano
- Divertissement à quatre mains
- Suite pour two pianos (1983)
- Première sonate (1983)
- Deuxième sonata (1986–1989)
Chamber music:
- Sonatina pour violon et piano (1977)
- Premier quatuor à cordes (1980)
- Fantasy toccata et rondes pour violoncelle et piano (1981)
- Deuxième quatuor à cordes (1991)
- Trio pour piano violon et violoncelle (2000)
- Vagabondages pour flûte (ut et sol) et piano (2007)
- Quelques fragments enchaînés for clarinette bass and harpe
- Sonata pour violon et piano (2011)
Various:
- Sphène pour quintette de harpes (1971)
- The arborescences for quintette de cuivres
- Concert en quintette pour clarinette, violon, violoncelle et piano (1993)
- Rétro-voyage pour flûte saxo alto, harp, violon, violoncelle, célesta et piano
- Burlesque. Pour flûte, clarinette bass, piston, trombone, percussions, piano, violon et contrebasse.
Composition for voice:
- Six poèmes tirés d'Epigrammes de Paul Verlaine pour baryton et piano.
- Quatre temps. Pour contre-alto, récitant et piano. (there is a version of the orchestra)
Awards ceremonies
- 1979: Nomination for the César for the best music for a French film Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol
literature
- Pierre Jansen: Music analysis by Joel Flegler, in: Fanfare: Volume 18, Issue 6 , Musikmagazin 1995, page 213
- Pierre Jansen: Portrait and Film Music Analysis by Royal S. Brown, in: Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music , University of California Press 1994, pp. 222-225, ISBN 0-520-08544-2
- Pierre Jansen: Profile and interview by François Porcile and Alain Garel, in: CinémAction - La musique à l'écran , N ° 62 Janvier 1992, CinémAction-Corlet, Télérama, pages 55–58, ISBN 2-85480-376-0
- Pierre Jansen: Filmography by Steven C. Smith in: Film Composers Guide - First Edition , Lone Eagle Publishing, Beverly Hills, California 1990, pp. 78-79, ISBN 0-943728-36-3
Web links
- Pierre Jansen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pierre Jansen at Discogs (English)
- Pierre Jansen at Allmusic (English)
- Stéphane Lerouge: Claude Chabrol on Pierre Jansen. In: home.comcast.net. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data of Pierre Jansen at uniFrance Films
- ↑ Portrait of Pierre Jansen in Editions Musicales Rubin
- ↑ Pierre Jansen: Nomination for the César for Best Music for a French Film 1979
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| SURNAME | Jansen, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jansen, Pierre Georges Cornil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roubaix , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 2015 |
| Place of death | Saint-Pierre-Saint-Jean |