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Gérard Grisey
12+ albums
contemporary classicalAvant-GardeSpectralismClassicalfrench
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Gérard Grisey (born 1946; died November 11, 1998) was a French composer of contemporary music. After initial training in Germany at the Trossingen Conservatory (1963–5), he studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1965–7, 1968–72) and with Henri Dutilleux at the École Normale (1968), inheriting from both teachers a sensitivity to sound, harmony and orchestration. He later undertook further studies in electro-acoustics (with Jean-Étienne Marie, 1969), composition (with Iannis Xenakis and Ligeti at the Darmstadt summer courses, 1972) and acoustics (with Emile Leipp at the Faculté des Sciences, 1974). During a residency at the Villa Medici, Rome (1972–4), he struck up a friendship with Tristan Murail, with whom, along with Michaël Lévinas, he founded the ensemble L'Itinéraire in 1973. He was an influential teacher: his wide musical sympathies – which embraced not only oriental and African music and the avant-garde but also figures often considered marginal to 20th-century modernism, such as Janáček and Sibelius – encouraged a stylistic diversity among younger pupils, who included Eric Tanguy and Magnus Lindberg. He taught at the Darmstadt summer courses (1976–82) and later held teaching posts at the University of California, Berkeley (1982–6), and the Paris Conservatoire (1987–98), where he was professor of orchestration and later of composition. He died suddenly of an aneurism at the age of 52. Grisey's musical voice was one of the most distinctive and influe
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Les Espaces Acoustiques
Tempus Ex Machina
Quatre Chantes pour franchir le seuil
Les Chants de l'Amour
Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques
Gérard Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques
Grisey: Vortex temporum & Periodes
Le Temps et l'Écume - Les Chants de l'Amour
Gérard Grisey: 4 Chants pour franchir le seuil
Mégalithes
Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
Le Noir de l'étoile