Roland Dyens

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Roland Dyens in Munich on April 8, 2000

Roland Dyens (born October 19, 1955 in Tunis ; † October 29, 2016 ) was a French guitarist and composer .

Life

Dyens moved to Paris in 1961, where he lived until the end (in the suburb of Ville-d'Avray ). He studied with Alberto Ponce and Désiré Dondeyne at the École Normale de Musique de Paris . He won numerous awards and guitar and composition competitions. Dyens has taught classical guitar at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and has given master classes worldwide.

Compositions

Dyen's compositions include more than 60 titles, including homages and eulogies for Heitor Villa-Lobos , Leo Brouwer and Frank Zappa . Tango en skaï is one of his most famous compositions . In 2007 Dyens composed the compulsory piece for the Guitar Foundation of America competition. Contemporary guitarists such as his student Thomas Viloteau , Elena Papandreou , Gerald Garcia and Michael Langer have published recordings of Dyen's compositions.

Some of his works have wordplay or humorous titles such as 1provisation (instead of improvisation , there is also a 2provisation ), Light Motif (based on the English loan word Leitmotif ), Lettre mi-longue ( half-length letter , a milonga ) or Lettre et le néant ( with a dedication for Jean Sol Partre , an allusion to Sartre's main work L'être et le néant - the piece consists of a page without notes, but with the performance description quasi niente ma non troppo ; in this respect it offers a little more than John Cage's 4'33 " ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RIP Roland Dyens
  2. ^ Sean Beavers: Homage in the solo guitar music of Roland Dyens . Florida State University, Dissertation, 2006, p. 17, available online ( memento of the original from January 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / etd.lib.fsu.edu

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personal data
SURNAME Dyens, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2016