Pierre Lantier (30 April 1910 – 4 April 1998) was a French composer and pianist, and the husband of fellow composer

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. Born in

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, Lantier was affiliated with the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as 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 ...

. In 1937, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome composition scholarship (a prize he shared with Victor Serventi). One of Lantier's most widely known works is a ''Sicilienne'' for alto saxophone and piano. His many other

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pieces include ''Andante et Scherzetto,'' for

saxophone quartet A saxophone quartet is a musical ensemble composed of four saxophones, typically soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Different saxophone family members are employed to provide a larger range and a variety of tone colours. Other arrang ...

; an ''Introduction, Romance, et Allegro,'' for bass trombone and piano; a

sonata Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...

for

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and piano; and ''Euskaldunak,'' a sonata for alto saxophone and piano. His larger-scale compositions include a

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(premiered in 1981), as well as three works for piano and orchestra. His music continues to be championed by present-day conductor Patrick Botti. Pierre Lantier died on 4 April 1998 in Ollioules, in Southeastern France.

References

1910 births 1998 deaths French male composers 20th-century French male classical pianists Musicians from Marseille 20th-century French composers Prix de Rome for composition Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris {{France-composer-stub