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Michaël Lévinas

French composer and pianist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist.[1]

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Biography

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

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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Selected bibliography

  • Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, Jean-Claire Vançon (eds.): Résonances polyphoniques. Hommage à Michaël Levinas (Paris: Centre d'édition et de recherche du Conservatoire, 2015), ISBN 2-912541-22-0.
  • Pierre Albert Castanet, Muriel Joubert (eds.): La Musique de Michaël Lévinas. Vers de contrepoints irréels (Château-Gontier: Éditions Aedam musicae, 2020), ISBN 978-2-919046-65-2.

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