Michaël Lévinas
Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949, in Paris) is a French composer and pianist.[1] He 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, Skriabin, 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
- 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)
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References
- 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2015, p. 52. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0
- Cinquante ans de modernité musicale: de Darmstadt à l'IRCAM - Page 902 Célestin Deliège - 2003 "MICHAËL LÉVINAS Anthologie Fils du philosophe phénoménologue, Emmanuel Lévinas, Michaël Lévinas (Paris, 1949) fait ses études musicales au CNSMP où il fréquente la classe d'Olivier Messiaen et où il enseignera lui-même ..."
- 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 ..."
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