Gérard Condé
Gérard Condé is a French composer and music critic.
Life
Born in Nancy, Condé was first self-taught until 1965 then studied harmony at the before following the teaching of Max Deutsch in Paris between 1969 and 1972.He joined the daily Le Monde in 1975. He also contributes to various publications, such as Opéra and Opéra international and produces programmes on France Musique.
As a composer, he writes in a technique derived from serial music.
Work
Compositions
- Mémorial, for baritone and string quintet
- Fêtes galantes, recitation with piano, poems by Verlaine
- Mélodie, scene for soprano, clarinet and piano
- Darjeeling, ritual for a singer preparing tea
- Il était une fois, pour violoncelliste raconteur/se
- Dans la résonance du cri, for piano
- Rondo varié, pour tubiste lecteur
- Lovely Madeline, ballad for a guitarist
- Rhapsodie, mimodrama for a bassoonist
- Scherzando un poco, for flute quartet
- Trio à cordes No 1
- Rêve d'amour, action musicale d'après Franz Liszt pour contrebassiste narrateur, soprano, clarinette basse, chœur d'hommes et ensemble instrumental Création Radio-France, 30 October 1989.
- Invocations for baritone and saxophone quartet on poems by Baudelaire and Huysmans — State commission.
- Monarch of Gods and Daemons, parabole scénique pour un saxophoniste jouant 5 instruments
- Éclats, for violin and viola commissioned by the Festival de La Rochelle
- Intenso, for viola and cello
- Amoroso, duetto for a clarinetist
- Traces premiere, Trio à cordes de Paris, festival d'Ambronay 1988.
- Culbutes, for 16 instruments
- Infusoires, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
- Le Mont des oliviers, cantata for soprano and basset horn on a poem by Alfred de Vigny, commissioned by the GRAME
- Élans for cello and piano
- Le Chant du silence for baritone and orchestra Commission from Radio-France. Premiered January 9, 1993.
- Les miracles de l'enfant Jésus, for children's choir commissioned by the Maîtrise de Radio France
- Éveil, for orchestra commission from
- Lointains for clarinet flute, piano, harp and string quartet, "Hommage à Paul Cézanne".
- La Chouette enrhumée, lyrical tale afte Oscar Wilde — State commission.
- Salima sac à ruses, comic opera for all audiences after One Thousand and One Nights — Commission from the Beaumarchais Foundation
- Léon le caméléon, musical tale for narrator and 17 musicians, State commission.
- Une larme du diable, Musical fantasy after Théophile Gautier for narrator and 7 musicians
- De Barque à Barque, 8 poems by Yves Bonnefoy for mezzo and piano
- Les Orages désirés romantic opera about Berlioz's childhood. Booklet by Christian Wasselin - commissioned by Radio France.
- Après le pas, poem by for voice and piano
- Les Chansons de Rabbi Moshé, Jewish stories for baritone and piano
- Pour garder le jour, sevan poems by François Cheng for mixed a cappella choir
- Sur les Hauts, for alto saxophone and harmony orchestra - Commissioned by the Conseil Général des Vosges.
- Vision, for soprano or tenor and piano, poem by Baudelaire - Commissioned by the city of Épinal.
- Thoueris, solo for euphonium
- Marie! four poems by Ronsard for tenor and piano
- String quartet
- Écrit sur nuage, 7 poems by for recitation, piano, clarinet and cello
- Humeurs for solo oboe - Commissioned by the Association française du hautbois
- Per amica silentia, 4 poems by Verlaine for mezzo or baritone and piano
- Messe de Sainte-Adresse, for mixed choir and organ
- Les Litanies de Satan, poem by Baudelaire for baritone and piano — Commission of the Francis Poulenc Academy.
Publications
Books
- Le piano, révélateur de l'orchestre chez Massenet, series "Observatoire musical français, Série histoire de la musique et analyse", Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003
- — Prix Bernier de l’Institut ; Grand Prix des Muses.
Articles
L'Est républicain L'Écran lorrain, Le Guide musical, Nouvelle Revue des Deux Mondes , Harmonie, Lyrica Opéra, Opéra International, Opéra Magazine, Le Monde de la musique , Mélomane , Diapason, Le Monde
; Musicographic texts:
- Literary and musical commentary, for L'Avant-Scène-Opéra, of texts by Auber, Berlioz, Berg, Bizet, G. Charpentier, Chausson, Debussy, Gounod, Hersant, Massenet Meyerbeer, Mozart ', Reimann ', Rossini, Weber.
- Nearly two hundred texts for the opera house programs of the Opéra national du Rhin, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Opéra de Paris, the Massenet Festival in Saint-Étienne, of the Opéra de Montpellier ; abroad: La Monnaie of Brussels, English National Opera; Liceu of Barcelona, Teatro Real of Madrid, Operas of Geneva, Rome, Liège, Antwerp, Stuttgart.
- More than two hundred texts for the symphonic hall programmes of the orchestras of Radio France, the Orchestre National de Lyon etc.
- Collaborations: Guide de la Mélodie ; Dictionnaire Berlioz, Larousse de la Musique, the Encyclopædia Universalis, the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians etc.
Recording notices
- Ropartz, Requiem - Catherine Dubosc, soprano; Jacqueline Mayeur, mezzo-soprano; Vincent Le Texier, bass; François-Henri Houbart, organ; Ensemble instrumental Jean-Walter Audoli, dir. Michel Piquemal
- Berlioz, La damnation de Faust - Philharmonia Orchestra, dir. Chung Myung-whun
- Cécile Chaminade, Mots d'amour, mélodies - Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Bengt Forsberg, piano
Publisher
- Massenet, Mes Souvenirs
- Weber, La Vie d'un musicien et autres écrits series "Musiques et musiciens", Jean-Claude Lattès, 1986 traduit de l'allemand, présentation et notes par G. Condé.
- Berlioz, Cauchemars et passions, textes inédits
- — nouvelle édition présentée, annotée et complétée par G. Condé
- Berlioz, , éd. Symétrie, 2014
- Lettres de Charles Gounod à Pauline Viardot, éd. Symétrie, 2015
- Fanny Mendelssohn by Françoise Tillard, éd. Symétrie 2007
- Gustave Charpentieri et son temps by Michela Niccolai, éd. Université de Saint-Étienne, 2013
Discography
- Premières mélodies du XXI: De barque à barque, poems by Yves Bonnefoy; Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano; Maria Belooussova, piano
- mélodrames français by Caroline Gautier
- La Chouette enrhumée
- Salima sac à ruses
- Infusoires