Florentine Mulsant (born 27 March 1962) is a French composer.

Life

Born in Dakar, Mulsant studied

harmony In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harm ...

counterpoint In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines (also called voices) that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term originates from the Latin ...

fugue In classical music, a fugue (, from Latin ''fuga'', meaning "flight" or "escape""Fugue, ''n''." ''The Concise Oxford English Dictionary'', eleventh edition, revised, ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson (Oxford and New York: Oxford Universit ...

musical analysis Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". The method employed to ans ...

and

orchestration Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

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 ...

and the

Schola Cantorum de Paris The Schola Cantorum de Paris ( being ) is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera. History The Schola ...

, where she won a First Prize in 1987 for composition in

Allain Gaussin Allain Gaussin (born 6 November 1943) is a noted French composer. Gaussin was born in Saint-Sever-Calvados, Normandy. He is a laureate of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (CNSMDP) where he studied with Olivier ...

's class. She followed the teaching of

Franco Donatoni Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...

at the

Accademia Musicale Chigiana The Accademia Musicale Chigiana (''English'': Chigiana Musical Academy) is a music institute in Siena, Italy. It was founded by Count Guido Chigi-Saracini in 1932 as an international centre for advanced musical studies. It organises Master Class ...

and furthered her skill with Alain Bancquart.

Selected works

* ''Amer'', for piano, on a poem by

Saint-John Perse Alexis Leger (; 31 May 1887 – 20 September 1975), better known by his pseudonym Saint-John Perse (; also Saint-Leger Leger), was a French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the ev ...

, Op. 4 * ''Sonate de concert'', for violin, Op. 19 * ''Sonate'' for viola and piano, Op. 20 (1999) * ''Sonate'' for violin and piano, Op. 21 (1999/2000) * ''In jubilo'', quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, Op. 22 * ''Trio'' for violin, cello and piano, Op. 23 * ''Quatuor à cordes'', Op. 26 (Commission by

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, premiered by the Castagneri Quartet, 2004) * ''Sonate'' for cello, Op. 27 * ''Quatuor avec piano'', Op. 28 * ''Passacaille'' for piano, Op. 29 * ''Quintette à vent'', Op. 30

Bibliography

External links

Personal website
* "Florentine Mulsant, compositeur", Isabelle Perrin, on ResMusica, 18 January 2006
(read online)

Florentine Mulsant - Dédale
(YouTube) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mulsant, Florentine 1962 births Living people Musicians from Dakar Conservatoire de Paris alumni Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni French women classical composers French music educators French women music educators Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 20th-century French classical composers 20th-century French women composers 21st-century French classical composers 21st-century French women composers Accademia Musicale Chigiana alumni