Ivo Malec (30 March 1925 in

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– 14 August 2019 in

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) was a Croatian-born 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 ...

, music educator and conductor. One of the earliest Yugoslav composers to obtain high international regard, his works have been performed by symphony orchestras throughout Europe and North America.

Biography

Coming from a rather 'classical' background, he met

Pierre Schaeffer Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His inno ...

whom he considers his 'true and only master'; Schaeffer's teachings turned Malec into one of the most important leaders of the Groupe de recherches musicales. Since then he dedicated himself to a more radical style. He received a number of awards including the Grand Prix National de Musique in 1992. He was resident in France since 1955 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire from 1972 to 1990 where he taught composers such as Édith Canat de Chizy, Denis Dufour, Philippe Hurel, Philippe Leroux and Gerard Pesson. Malec's approach to composition which in ways is similar to that of Denis Dufour or Xenakis is the emphasis on all aspects of sound including texture, density, movement, timbre and notably sonic character and form and the use of sound objects.

Works

*''Klaviersonate'', 1949 *''Sinfonie'', 1951 *''Cellosonate'', 1956 *''Mouvements en coloeurs'', 1959 *''Reflets'', 1961 *''Sigma'', 1963 *''Miniatures pour Lewis Carroll'', 1964 *''Lignes et Points'', 1965 *''Cantate pour elle'', 1966 *''Oral'', 1967 *''Lumina'', 1968 *''Luminétudes'', 1968 *''Lied'', 1969 *''Dodécaméron'', 1970 *''Pieris'', 1975 *''Triola ou Symphonie pour moi-même'', 1977–78 *''Week-end'', 1982 *''Ottava bassa'', 1984 *''Attacca'', 1986 *''Artemisia'', 1991 *''Doppio Coro'', 1993 *''Exempla'', 1994 *''Ottava alta'', 1995 *''Sonoris causa'', 1997 *''Arc-en-cello'', 2000

References

External links

Archive of official website at Archive.org (in French)

France Musique's obituary dated 3 September 2019.
2019 deaths 1925 births Musicians from Zagreb Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni Croatian composers Academy of Music, University of Zagreb alumni Knights of the Legion of Honour Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Yugoslav emigrants to France French people of Croatian descent {{Croatia-composer-stub