Michaël Lévinas
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Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Paris, Levinas was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris.[2]
As an interpreter he made several recordings, mostly for Adès. Amongst these are works by Beethoven, Fauré, Scriabin, Schubert, and the complete Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach.
His father was the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and he is married to philosopher and musicologist Danielle Cohen-Levinas.
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- Lévinas' scores are largely published by Éditions Salabert, Éditions Henry Lemoine, Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.
- Arsis et Thésis for flute (1971)
- Clov et Hamm for trombone, tuba, percussion and magnetic tape (1973)
- Appels for 11 instruments (1974)
- Froissements d'ailes for flute (1975)
- Ouverture pour une fête étrange for 2 orchestras and electroacoustic device (1979)
- Concerto pour piano espace #2 (1980)
- Les rires de Gilles for 5 instrumentalists and tape (1981)
- Arcades for viola and piano (1982)
- Arcades II for viola and 12 instruments (1982)
- La conférence des oiseaux, after a Persian tale of Attar (1985)
- La cloche fêlée for orchestra and electroacoustic device (1988)
- Voûtes for 6 percussionists (1988)
- Préfixes for 17 instrumentalists and electroacoustic device (1991)
- Rebonds for sextet and electroacoustic device (1993)
- Go-gol, Opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Frédéric Tristan after the stories of Gogol (1996)[3]
- Les Lettres enlacées II: Fragments d'une lettre for viola solo (2000)
- Les nègres, Opera in 3 acts on Les Nègres of Jean Genet (2003)
- Les Lettres enlacées V for 2 violas (2006)
- La Métamorphose, after Metamorphosis of Kafka (2011)
Selected bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, Jean-Claire Vançon (eds.): Résonances polyphoniques. Hommage à Michaël Levinas (Paris: Centre d'édition et de recherche du Conservatoire, 2015), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Pierre Albert Castanet, Muriel Joubert (eds.): La Musique de Michaël Lévinas. Vers de contrepoints irréels (Château-Gontier: Éditions Aedam musicae, 2020), Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2015, p. 52. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Célestin Deliège: Cinquante ans de modernité musicale: de Darmstadt à l'IRCAM (Sprimont: Mardaga, 2003), p. 902.
- ^ Composer un opéra aujourd'hui: Actes de la journée d'étude du 13 ... - Page 86 Béatrice Ramaut-Chevassus - 2003 "À présent, les synthétiseurs et les effets acousmatiques sont rois: dans Go-gol (1995-1996) - écrit d'après deux nouvelles de Gogol18 -, le compositeur Michaël Lévinas a synthétisé à loisir diverses classes de modèles de résonance afin que ..."
External links
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