Renaud Gagneux (; 15 May 1947 – 24 January 2018) was a French

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. Gagneux studied piano with

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and composition with

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer of late 20th-century classical music. Among the leading French composers of his time, his work was rooted in the Impressionistic style of Debussy and R ...

at the École Normale in Paris. In 1966 he went to

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to study composition with

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

, then with

André Jolivet André Jolivet (; 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet drew on his interest in acoustics and atonality, as well as both ancient and modern musical influ ...

and

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century, he was also an ou ...

at the

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, where he won first prize in composition in 1972. In 1972 he joined the

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de l' ORTF. His numerous prizes include the Sacem Grand Prix for chamber music (1977), the Prix Georges Enesco (1983), the Prize for New Talent from the SACD (1989), the Composers' Prize of the Sacem (1990), and the SACEM Grand Prix 1993 for his works overall. His death was announced on 25 January 2018.

Compositions (selective list)

*Concerto for Double-bass and Orchestra, op. 6 (1981) *Concerto for Tuba, Piano, and Orchestra, op. 9 (1982–83) *Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, op. 51 (1997) *Duo for Violin and Viola (1973) *Requiem (1982) ISWC T-003.042.605.1 *''Les échos de la mémoire'', op. 13, for orchestra (1985) *String Quartet no. 1, op. 15 (1986) *String Quartet no. 2, op. 16 (1986) *''Qamar'', op. 20, string quintet and string orchestra (1988) *String Quartet no. 3, op. 23, 1989 *''Triptyque'' for cello and orchestra, op. 24 (1989) *''Haec Anima …'', for 12 or 24 Double-basses (1992) *Mass, op. 42, for organ (1994) *"Narandj" op.38a for harp

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