Costin Miereanu is a French

France

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and musicologist

Musicology

Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

  of Romania

Romania

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n birth.

Biography

Miereanu studied from 1960 to 1966 at the Music Academy of Bucharest with Alfred Mendelsohn, Dan Constantinescu, and Lazar Octavian Cosma, and later at the École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales, at the Schola Cantorum, and at the University of Paris VIII, where he was awarded first prizes in writing, analysis, music history, esthetics, orchestration, and composition) and earned a Doctor of Letters and a Doctor of Musical Semiotics. Between 1967 and 1969 he was a student of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

, György Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

, and Ehrhard Karkoschka at the Internationale Ferienkurse für neue Musik in Darmstadt

Darmstadt

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  (Cosma 2001). In 1977 he became a French citizen. Since 1981 he has been Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and the Science of Art at the Sorbonne.

Miereanu evolved his compositional style featuring a sensuous sonic fabric by combining of Satie's techniques with an abstraction of Romanian traditional music (Cosma 2001). Many of his complex and often virtuoso works include visual componentsMiereanu has composed aleatoric works and works in the style of Musique concrète

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

for orchester and chamber orchestra, often with the employment of tape-recording equipment, as well as works for the theatre. He was awarded the prize of the European Cultural Foundation 1967, the Prix Enescu (1974), and the Prix de la Partition Pédagogique of the French Composers’ Association (SACEM).

Portions translated from the German and French Wikipedias

Works

• Monostructure I, for two orchestras
• Monostructure II, for strings, brass, and tape
• Das Ende krönt das Werk, for piano and six instrumental groups
• In der Nacht der Zeiten, aleatoric music for instruments and tape
• Couleurs du temps I, for string orchestra
• Couleurs du tempsII for string quartet and tape (1968)
• Monostructures I, for brass and strings (1966)
• Couleurs du temps III for double string quartet and double bass
• Finis coronat opus, for piano and six instrumental groups (1966)
• Espaces II for twenty stringed instruments, piano, and tape (1967–69)
• Espace dernier, aleatoric music for choir, six instrumental groups, and tape (1966–69)
• Rosario, for large orchestra (1973–76)
• Domingo, for vocal quintet and variable instruments (1974)
• Planetarium, for two flutes, trombone, and two percussionists (1975)
• Raum jenseits von gestern, aleatoric music for chamber orchestra
• L'Avenir est dans les œufs, opera (1980)
• Le jardin de sécrets, for soprano, alto flute or viola, bass clarinet, trombone, piano, and accordion or electric organ (1980)
• Cuivres célestes, for brass quintet, two percussionists, and strings (1981)
• Labyrinthes d’Adrien, for soprano and ensemble (1981)
• Miroirs célestes, for orchestra (1981–83)
• Kammerkonzert, for saxophone and nine instruments (1985)
• Doppel(kammer)konzert, for saxophone, percussion, and chamber orchestra (1985)
• D’un régard moiré, for woodwind quartet, string trio, double bass, piano, and percussion (1988)
• Sextuplum, for six percussionists (1988–89)
• Ricochets, saxophone(s), electric guitar, bass guitar, synthesizer, and percussion (1989)
• D’un source oubliée, for harpsichord and string sextet (1989)
• Un temps sans mémoire, for orchestra (1989–92)
• Immersion, for saxophone(s) and tape (1990)
• La Porte du paradis, lyric fantasie (1991)
• De humani corporis fabbrica, ballet (1992)
• Les miroirs invisibles, for string sextet (1992)
• Vol du temps, canticum sacrum in memoriam Jean-Pierre Ouvrard, for mixed choir a cappella, or mixed choir and three percussionists (1993)
• Solo III, for solo violin (1995)
• Solo IV, rythmodies, for amplified basson (1995)
• Solo V, for oboe, or cor anglais, or baritone oboe (1995)
• Solo VI, for solo cello (1995)
• Solo VII, for solo viola (1995)
• Orison, ballet (1999)
• Symphony No. 3 "Blick auf die Frühe" (2001)