Marcel Frémiot (29 February 1920 – 19 January 2018) was a French composer and

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Biography

Born in the

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, Frémiot was a student at the

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and a pupil of

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. He was introduced to

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by Vladimir Fedoroff. He was artistic director or sound recordist in several record companies (

Le Chant du Monde Le Chant du Monde was a French music publishing house. It was created in 1938 by Léon Moussinac and was supported in the beginning by classical composers Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Charles Koechlin, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Alber ...

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, disques Jéricho). From 1966, he was a professor of music history at the Marseille conservatory. In 1967–1968, he was a trainee of the

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(GRM) under the direction of

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. In 1968, he was the professor of the first class of

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at the Marseille conservatory, created on the initiative of its director Pierre Barbizet. In 1970, he founded the "Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille" (GMEM). In 1984, he created the Laboratoire Musique et informatique de Marseille (MIM).MIM
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Selected works

Frémiot wrote about 120 works of

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, electroacoustic, vocal, choral,

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or film. He wrote numerous articles in the ''Encyclopédie de la Musique'' (Fasquelle), ''Twenty Century Music'' ( Calder Publishing, London), the ''Histoire de la musique'' ( La Pléiade), the ''Encyclopédie des musiques sacrées'' (éditions Labergerie), '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', ''

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and t ...

''. He is the author of numerous analyses of works and participated in the following collective works: * ''Les Unités sémiotiques temporelles (UST), éléments nouveaux d'analyse musicale'' (MIM éditeur, 1996) * ''Ouïr, entendre, écouter, comprendre après Schaeffer'' (dir. François Delalande, Buchet/Chastel, 1999) * ''Les Unités sémiotiques temporelles (UST), nouvelles clés pour l’écoute, outil d’analyse musicale'' (MIM éditeur, 2003)

References

External links

Marcel Frémiot official website
– via

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Biography of Marcel Frémiot

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Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille (in French) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fremiot, Marcel 1920 births 2018 deaths 20th-century French classical composers 20th-century French male musicians 20th-century French musicologists 21st-century French musicologists Conservatoire de Paris alumni French male classical composers Musicians from Paris