Eric Gaudibert is a Swiss 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...

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He studied piano and composition in the conservatory of Lausanne

Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

 particularely with Denise Bidal and Hans Haug

Hans Haug

Hans Haug was a Swiss composer in the primitivist style.The eminent Swiss composer, Hans Haug studied at the Basle Conservatory and the Munich Music Academy, also attending master classes with Busoni in Zurich. Haug’s catalogue of works includes orchestral music, concertos, operas, film scores,...

, and later in Paris in the Ecole Normale de Musique with Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

, Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

 and Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

. He worked notably in the French "avant-garde" in 1972-1974 in the Maison de la Culture of Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

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A former professor in both Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

 (since 1975) and Neuchâtel, he pursues a tradition led by Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

, Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

 and Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

, and has over time developed a personal style embracing electronics and the media, poetry, visual art (specifically that by Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism...

), and literature in a specific spatial, timbral and philosophical inquiry on music.

He lives in Confignon

Confignon

Confignon is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.-History:Confignon is first mentioned in 1153 as Cofiniacum. The current, independent municipality was created in 1851 when the former municipality of Onex-Confignon divided into the municipalities of Onex and...

, Switzerland.

Works

Gaudibert's works are largely published by Swiss Music Editions and Éditions Papillon.

Opera

• Chacun son singe, Chamber Opera for soprano, baritone, instrumental ensemble and electronic tape (1973–1978); libretto by Philip Kermit Oxman

Orchestral

• 5 pièces brèves for string orchestra (1976)
• Divertimento for string orchestra (1978)
• Gemmes, 4 Pieces (1980)
• L'écharpe d'Iris, Prelude (1984–1985)
• Hommage(s) à..., Short Pieces (1985)
• Diamant d'herbe, Poem (1986)
• Duel for small string ensemble (ad lib.) (1990)
• Mélodie sans fin (1992)
• Jardin d'Est (1994)
• Concerto grosso for string orchestra (1998)
• Praeludium for string orchestra (2007)
• Sur la route du soleil levant for string orchestra (2007)

Concertante

• Epibolie for flute and string orchestra (1968)
• Un jardin pour Orphée for horn and string orchestra (1985)
• Océans, Concertino for flute and string orchestra (1988)
• Concerto "Su fondamenta insivisibli" for oboe and orchestra (1991)
• Albumblätter for flute and chamber orchestra (1992)
• Concerto for cello and orchestra (1993)
• Concertino for clarinet and string orchestra (1994)
• A... in Wonderland for viola and ensemble (2007)

Chamber Music

• Duo for 2 flutes (1959)
• Morceaux, 30 Pieces for recorders (1969)
• Epitase for violin, viola, cello, harpsichord and tape (1970–1974)
• Syzygy for flute and prepared piano (1971)
• String Quartet No.1 "Entre se taire et dire" (1971)
• Vernescence for clarinet (or basset horn, or bass clarinet), piano and electroacoustic device (1973)
• Variations lyriques for cello solo (1976)
• Suite en 5 pièces for guitar solo (1977)
• Capriccio for violin solo (1978)
• Contrechamps for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord (1979)
• Astrance for wind quintet (1980)
• Light for trumpet and piano (1981)
• Orées for violin, flute, violoncello, piano and clarinet (1986)
• Miscellanées for panpipes, clarinet, cello, marimba, harpsichord and spinet
  Spinet
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  , electro-acoustic slide show (1986)
• Feuillages for 3 percussionists (1988)
• Songes (Songs) for violin and piano (1989)
• Songes, bruissements for violin, cello and piano (1990)
• Petite Suite, 6 Pieces for 2, 3, and 4 cellos (1990)
• Zwielicht (Twilight) for flute and harp (1990)
• Albumblätter for 2 flutes (1992–2000)
• Sérénade for violin, viola, cello and piano (1992)
• Chant de l'aube for horn solo (1993)
• Chant de l'aube for viola solo (1993–1995)
• Fanfare pour la paix for solo and ensemble ad lib. (1994)
• 33 Chansons for 2 guitars (1994)
• Deux pas dans le gris for accordion solo (1994–1999)
• Deux ou trois pas... for double bass solo (1994–1998)
• Deux ou trois pas dans le gris for double bass and accordion (1994)
• Le dit d'elle for double bass solo (1995)
• Ce tremblement, qui est une volupté, Duo for 2 oboes (1997–1999)
• Voce, voci for harp (1997)
• Fantaisie concertante for flute and cello (1998–1999)
• Canzone a tre for recorder, Baroque violin and Baroque cello (1998–2000)
• Trois pièces pour accordéon (1999)
• Wolkenblau for alto flute and guitar (1999–2000)
• A due for oboe, clarinet, violin and double bass (2000)
• Message for cello solo and viola (2000)
• 5 pièces for 1, 2 or 3 saxophones (2001)
• Remember... for cello and electronics (2001)
• Une promenade for transverse flute, bassoon and natural horn (2002)
• Mayn kind, mayn treyt for violin and guitar (2002–2004)
• "Pierrot, à table!" ou Le souper du poète for percussion, accordion, saxophone, horn and piano (2003)
• Hekâyat for rubab, viola, oboe and percussion (2003)
• Pour Orphée for horn solo (2004)
• Message(s) for cello solo and string quartet (2004)
• Ciel d'ombre, 3 pieces for theorbo
  Theorbo
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   (2004)
• Ciel d'ombre for oboe, theorbo
  Theorbo
  A theorbo is a plucked string instrument. As a name, theorbo signifies a number of long-necked lutes with second pegboxes, such as the liuto attiorbato, the French théorbe des pièces, the English theorbo, the archlute, the German baroque lute, the angélique or angelica. The etymology of the name...
  
   and electronics (2004–2005)
• Au delà for flute, viola and cello (2005)
• Images japonaises for horn and string quartet (2005)
• 5 miniatures for string quartet (2005)
• String Quartet No.2 "Rien, il n'y a rien de plus beau" (2006)
• Là for guitar (2006)
• 2'35" (2 Minutes 35 Seconds) for bassoon solo, bass flute, bass clarinet and trumpet (2007)
• Le dit d'elle for viola solo (1995, 2007)
• Le chant de la rose for kawala
  Kawala
  The kāwālā is an end-blown cane flute used in Arabic music. It is similar to the ney but has six finger holes, while the ney has seven . The kawala comes in up to nine different sizes, according to the maqam....
  
  , clarinet and kanun
  Kanun (Instrument)
  The Qanun is a string instrument found in the 10th century in Farab in Turkestan...
  
   (2008)
• Scr(i)pt for solo percussionist (vibraphone, cymbals, triangles, crotales
  Crotales
  thumb|right|Crotales are often used with other mallet percussionCrotales , sometimes called antique cymbals, are percussion instruments consisting of small, tuned bronze or brass disks. Each is about 4 inches in diameter with a flat top surface and a nipple on the base. They are commonly...
  
  , wood-blocks, bongos, bass drum), soprano singer, piccolo flute, oboe, clarinet and double bass (2009)

Organ

• Jetées (1987)

Piano

• Solstice for piano and tape (1971–1976)
• 4 Miniatures (1976)
• Pour main gauche seule (1976)
• Sonate (1978)
• Trois Tableau for 2 pianos (1993)
• Les amours du poète for piano 4-hands (1994)
• Fantaisie concertante for piano and Baroque string quartet (1998–1999)
• Fantaisie concertante for piano solo (1999–2000)

Vocal

• Mélodies for soprano or tenor and piano (1966)
• Mélodies 2 for soprano or tenor and piano (1966)
• La Harpe du silence, Suite lyrique for soprano, contralto, narrator and instrumental ensemble (1966); text by Blaise Cendrars
  Blaise Cendrars
  Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...
  
  
• Année, 4 Symphonic Movements for soprano, contralto and orchestra (1970); text by Philippe Henri Jaccottet
• Ecritures, Opéra parlé for voice and tape (1975)
• La cantate des évantails for 3 children's voices and instrumental ensemble (1984)
• Du blanc dans le noir for 2 children's voices and a small ensemble (1991); words by J.M.G. Le Clézio
• Concerto lirico for soprano, cello and percussion (1995)
• Deux airs for soprano, cello and percussion (1995)
• Judith et Holopherne, Melodrama for string orchestra, timbales and narrator (1996); words by François Debluë
• Wolkenblau for soprano, alto flute and guitar (1999–2000)
• It Was Not a Melody for soprano, flute, bass, viola, trumpet and electronic piano (2000)

Choral

• Eripe me, Domine (Psalm 140) for mixed double chorus acappella (1978)
• Le regardeur infini, Six scenes for vocal ensemble, speaker, percussion and harpsichord (1987–1990); words by Victor Hugo
  Victor Hugo
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• S'achève ma voix for mixed chorus and orchestra (1991)
• Bruit d'ailes for 12-part vocal ensemble (1992); words by K. White and Blaise Cendrars
  Blaise Cendrars
  Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...
  
  
• Intermezzo for female chorus, flute, violin and harp (1996)
• Vers quel ciel éblouissant, Cantata for mixed chorus and ensemble (2003–2004)
• Intermezzo for a vocal ensemble and female voice (2005)

External links

• Eric Gaudibert, biography
• Works by Eric Gaudibert at Musinfo
• Eric Gaudibert in the Geneva International Music Competition, biography