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Spectral Music Pioneer: Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey was a French composer known for pioneering spectral music. He was a student of Olivier Messiaen and later taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. Some of his notable works include Vortex Temporum, Les Espaces Acoustiques, and Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil. Grisey was a virtuoso accordion player in his teens and had a very successful academic career, winning many prizes at the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, and others.

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Spectral Music Pioneer: Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey was a French composer known for pioneering spectral music. He was a student of Olivier Messiaen and later taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. Some of his notable works include Vortex Temporum, Les Espaces Acoustiques, and Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil. Grisey was a virtuoso accordion player in his teens and had a very successful academic career, winning many prizes at the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, and others.

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GÉRARD GRISEY

MARCELLO CIRELLI
WHO WAS HE

•Spectral music pioneer


•Student of Olivier Messiaen
•Professor at Conservatoire de Paris
•Noted works:
•Vortex Temporum
•Les Espaces Acoustiques
•Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
BIOGRAPHY

•Born in Belfort, France 1946


•Virtuoso accordion player in teens
•Was a stellar student: Trossingen
Conservatory 1963-1965, Conservatoire
de Paris 1965-1967 & 1968-1972
•Won many prizes at the Conservatoire
•Studied electroacoustics with Jean-
Étienne Marie, composition with Xenakis
& Ligeti, and acoustics with Emile Leipp
EARLY WORKS
• Megalithes (1969) – For 15 brass instruments

• Periodes – Les Espaces Acoustiques:


• “There are three kinds of moments
in Périodes, analogous to human
breathing: states of inhaling, exhaling and
resting are translated aurally into moments of
dynamic and growing tension, dynamic and
progressive relaxation, and static periodicity.”
MID CAREER
TALEA (1986)
The idea of a "cutting" of the initial idea,
of putting the various rhythmic structures
in phase and out of phase, as well of a
structure in two parts in which the second
could easily be termed "color", have
suggested the title of this quintet to me.
END CAREER
VORTEX TEMPORUM (1996)
• Based on Daphnis et Chloé
• Grisey’s ”magnum opus”
FINAL PIECE

QUATRE CHANTS POUR


FRANCHIR LE SEUIL
• Ironically it is about the threshold
between life and death

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