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Christian Manen (3 July 1934 – 11 September 2020) was a French
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
and
music teacher Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...
. Born in
Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...
, Manen studied at the Conservatory of Nice and between 1949 and 1961 at the
Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...
. Here he was a student of Berthe Duru (solfège), Jules Gentil (piano), Félix PasseroneFélix Passerone
on bnf (drums),
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and
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(organ and improvisation),
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(conducting),
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(counterpoint and fugue), Henri Challan (harmony),
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(music history) and
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(composition). In 1961 he won the Premier Grand
Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
with the cantata ''La Loreley''. This was followed by a stay at the
Villa Medici The Villa Medici () is a sixteenth-century Italian Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with 7-hectare Italian garden, contiguous with the more extensive Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in the historic ...
in Rome until 1965.


Career

Manen had been teaching at the Conservatory of Asnières since 1954 and a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris since 1965. He also taught at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR) and other music schools, including the École supérieure de musique César-Franck. Since 1985 he gave regular lectures at the Académie internationale d'été de Nice. Among his students were
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,
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,
Pascal Devoyon Pascal Devoyon (born 6 April 1953) is a French classical pianist. Biography Born in Paris, Devoyon began his studies with Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi then with Lélia Gousseau at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won first prize in 1971. ...
,
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,
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, Raphaël Sanchez, Rémi Guillard,
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and Cédric Tiberghien. In 1970 he founded the ''Orchestre des Cadets d'Asnières'', which he conducted until 1999 and with which he gave almost one hundred concerts in Paris, all of Europe and the USA. He also conducted the Turkish National Orchestra in Istanbul for several years. He was also organist in numerous churches in Paris and was a member of the Union des Maîtres de Chapelle et Organistes since 1960. In 1999 he retired from teaching. Manen composed about 140 works, including orchestral and
chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...
,
motet In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to the Eng ...
s and other choral and vocal works and music educational pieces.


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Catalogue général chronologique des œuvres de Christian Manen
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Biography

Christian Manen (b. 1934) : Piano Concerto (1957)
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Manen, Christian 1934 births 2020 deaths Musicians from Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris 20th-century French composers French classical composers French male classical composers Prix de Rome for composition 20th-century French male musicians