Gilles Tremblay (composer)
Canadian composer
Gilles Tremblay , OQ (6 September 1932 – 27 July 2017) was a Canadian composer from Quebec .
Early life and education
Trembay studied at the conservatories of Québec in Montréal and Paris (1954–61), where his teachers included Olivier Messiaen (analysis), Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger (counterpoint ), Yvonne Loriod (piano), and Maurice Martenot (inventor of the ondes Martenot ). He also attended Stockhausen 's summer courses at Darmstadt , where he became interested in electro-acoustic techniques.
Career
Tremblay returned to Quebec in 1961. He taught musical analysis at the Centre d'arts Orford [fr ] and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Quebec City. Beginning in 1962, and for many years, he taught composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Among his pupils are Serge Arcuri [fr ] , Raynald Arseneault , Yves Daoust , François Dompierre , Marc Hyland, Ramon Lazkano , Robin Minard , Éric Morin , Silvio Palmieri , Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux , Isabelle Panneton [fr ] , André Villeneuve , Claude Vivier , and Wolf Edwards.
Early in his career he performed as a specialist on the ondes Martenot.[ 5]
In 1991, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec .
Tremblay died August 4, 2017, at Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce .
Compositions (selective list)
Mobile , for violin and piano (1962)
Champs I , for piano and 2 percussionists (1965)
Cantique de durées , for seven groups of instruments (1960)
Sonorisation du Pavillon du Québec , 24-channel electronic music (1967)
Souffles (Champs II) , for 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet, horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, 2 percussionists, and contrabass (1968)
Vers (Champs III) , for 2 flutes, clarinet, trumpet, horn, 3 percussionists, 3 violins, and contrabass (1969)
Jeux de solstices , for orchestra (1974)
Oralléluiants , for soprano, bass clarinet, horn, 2 percussionists, and 3 contrabasses (1975)
Fleuves , for piano, percussion, and orchestra (1976)
Vers le soleil , for orchestra (1978)
Le Signe du lion , for horn and tam-tam (1981)
Triojubilus "À Raphaël" , for flute, harp, and cowbells (1985)
Les Vêpres de la Vierge , for soprano and orchestra (1986)
Musique du feu , for piano and orchestra (1991)
L'arbre de Borobudur , for horn, 2 harps, double bass, ondes Martenot, 2 percussionists, and gamelan ensemble (1994)
L'espace du coeur (Miron-Machaut) , for mixed voices and percussion (1997)
Les pierres crieront , for cello and large orchestra (1998)
A quelle heure commence le temps? , for baritone, percussion, piano, and orchestra (1999)
L'appel de Kondiaronk: symphonie portuaire , environmental work for battle sirens and 2 locomotives (2000)
String Quartet ' Croissant' (2001)
En partage (Concerto), for viola and orchestra (2002)
L'eau qui danse, la pomme qui chante et l'oiseau qui dit la vérité , Opéra féerie based on "The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird " (2009)
Writings
1968. "Note pour Cantique de durées ." Revue d'esthetique 21, nos. 2–4 ("Musiques nouvelles"): 51–58.
References
Sources
Beck, Gordon. 2017. "Composer Gilles Tremblay Has Died at 85 ". Montreal Gazette (29 July; accessed 8 July 2019).
Huss, Christophe. 2017. "Gilles Tremblay, la mort du patriarche ". Le Devoir (31 July; accessed 8 July 2019).
Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse. 2018. "Gilles Tremblay ". Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (18 January; accessed 8 July 2019).
Mather, Bruce. 2001. "Gilles Tremblay". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell . London: Macmillan Publishers.
Orton, Richard, and Hugh Davies. 2001. "Ondes martenot". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell . London: Macmillan Publishers.
Peyser, Joan. 1976 . Boulez: Composer, Conductor, Enigma . New York: Schirmer Books. ISBN 0-02-871700-7 ; London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-29901-4
Villeneuve, André. 2001. "Souffles (Champs II , the Mobile, and the Musical Language of Gilles Tremblay." Ex tempore 10, no. 2 (Spring–Summer): 58–147.
Further reading
Auzolle, Cécile. « De la résurgence du merveilleux : l'exemple de L'Eau qui danse, la Pomme qui chante et l'Oiseau qui dit la vérité, un opéra de Gilles Tremblay et Pierre Morency. » Circuit, volume 20, numéro 3, 2010, p. 9–42. doi :10.7202/044859ar
External links
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