Biographie

Alain Bancquart (Dieppe, B.20 June 1934 ) is a french composer, he had his musical formation at the "Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris" (violin, viola, chambre music, counterpoint, fugue and composition) with Darius Milhaud. He became Directeur Musical des Orchestres de Régions in l'ORTF (1973-1974), then musical director of the National orchestra of France (1975-1976). Dieppe is a town and commune in the Seine-Maritime département of Haute-Normandie (eastern Normandy), France. ... is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (IPA: ) (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. ... The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France. ...

He's also a composer. Since 1967, he has dedicated his work to the study of micro-intervals in a neo-serial approach using quater-tones ^[1] , and more recently 16th tones ^[2] Microtonal music is music using microtones -- intervals of less than a semitone, or as Charles Ives put it, the notes between the cracks of the piano. ... Serialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them. ...

Works

• Five symphonies for large orchestra
• Two concertos for violin
• partition concertante for cello et ensemble
• two works for string trio and orchestra
• Two chamber operas
• Three string quatuors
• many pieces for flute.
• many vocal works

References

Links

A page dedicated to Alain Bancquart(fr)