Saint-Preux

Saint-Preux (* 1950 ) is the pseudonym of the French composer Christian Langlade.

biography

In August 1969 he took part in Poland at the Sopot International Song Festival , where he conducted a symphony orchestra and won the international press prize with his first major composition La valse de l'enfance (Eng. The Youth Waltz ). He then worked in Poland on his second major composition, Concerto pour une voix (Eng. Concerto for one voice ). This was followed by the titles Le Piano sous la mer (German: The piano under the sea ), La Fête triste (German: The sad party ), Missa Amoris and Symphonie pour la Pologne (German: symphony for Poland ).

The title Les cris de la Liberté (dt. The cries of freedom ) is a hymn to peace and human rights , which during the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the 1989 storming of the Bastille on the Place de la Concorde in Paris was played and the to the French revolution the following declaration of human rights recalls. During these celebrations, Saint Preux met John Paul II , to whom he dedicated this piece.

Saint-Preux has worked with the London Symphony Orchestra , the Polish Symphony Orchestra and Choirs of Krakow, the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 he wrote a new interpretation of Concerto pour une voix , which was sung as Concerto pour deux voix (Eng. Concerto for two voices ) by his daughter Clémence and the singer Jean-Baptiste Maunier .

Discography

• Concerto pour une voix (1969)
• Le piano sous la mer (1972)
• La passion (1973)
• La fête triste (1974)
• Your hair & Missa Amoris (1975)
• Concerto pour piano (1975)
• Symphonie pour la Pologne (1977)
• Atlantis (1979)
• To be or not (1981)
• Le piano d'Abigaïl (1983)
• Atlantis (1983)
• Odyssée (1983)
• Phytandros (1991)
• Free Yourself (1999)
• The last opera (1994)
• Concerto pour two voix (2005)
• Le Désir (2009)
• Jeanne La Romantique (2012)

Web links

• http://www.saint-preux.fr