Alain Celo (born 1960) is a French composer and

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with the . He has written about twenty works, mainly instrumental. He followed a complete cursus of music writing and

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at the , with . He was awarded the

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Prize, and also received advice from Claude Lefebvre and

George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...

. His influences range from

Debussy Achille Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionism in music, Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influe ...

and

Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of ...

to Ligeti, through

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and

ethnic music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

. His pieces most often feature the relationship between man and nature (from ''Oiseaux imaginaires pour piano'' in 1993 to ''Espaces désertiques'' for flute, violin, double bass and percussion in 2003) or are directly related to literary works (''Commentaires sur Verlaine'' for viola, piano and narrator, 1996, ''

Erlkönig "Erlkönig" is a German poetry, poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking, a king of the fairy, fairies. It was originally written by Goethe as part of a 1782 ''Singspiel' ...

'' after

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

for voices and strings, 2001). Commissioned by the Pyxis Ensemble, his work, ''L’Amour et le Sablier'' (soprano voices, flute, viola and piano), on poems by , was premiered in 2004 (printed since at Éditions musicales européennes). His works have been performed by the Stravinsky ensemble, the

Cergy-Pontoise Cergy-Pontoise () is a new town and an agglomeration community in France, in the Val-d'Oise and Yvelines departments, northwest of Paris on the river Oise. It owes its name to two of the communes that it covers, Cergy and Pontoise. Its population ...

Studio, Symblêma, Souffle d’ébène.LaSemaine.fr
28 April 2009.

References

External links

Official website

''Le mouton à cinq pattes'' composition by Alain Celo
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Celo, Alain 1960 births Living people Musicians from Neuilly-sur-Seine French classical violists 20th-century French composers 21st-century French composers 21st-century French male composers French male composers École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni 20th-century French male musicians 20th-century French violists 21st-century violists