Joseph-François Kremer
Encyclopedia
Joseph-François Kremer is a French
composer
, conductor
, violin
ist and musicologist.
(France) in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of the City of Antony (Île-de-France). He is associated with an original movement in Postmodernism
, cited in the ‘‘Larousse de la musique’’. His compositional style is situated between the formal conception of a theorised musical heritage and the research of new freely referenced musical climates. He is very sensitive to the sound qualities of contemporary music as well as the human role in the context of musical interpretation. As a cellist, he studied with Robert Cordier, Maurice Gendron
and Claude Burgos. He studied orchestral conducting with J.C. Hartmann. As a composer, he was principally the disciple of Claude Ballif
.
He has written several books which deal with musical phenomenology, especially on the symbolic forms of music (1984), on the great musical topics (1994), on musical aesthetics (2000), as well as on musical theory, among them the first French reissue of Rameau
’s Traité d'harmonie of 1722, a project supported by the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1986, and in 1996 Rameau’s Nouveau système de musique théorique of 1726. Must be also mentioned several works of comparative aesthectics.
From 1987 to 1994, he directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble Intervalles and performed premières, as a conductor, of works by J.Y. Bosseur, C. Ballif
, M. Mathias, E. Gismonti
, as well as his own works in international festivals : in Czech Republic, Germany, France, with retransmissions on Radio-France and the Radio-Suisse- Romande. He directed the conservatory of the city of Sevran from 1985 to 1996, where he invited Claude Ballif
to take a composition class in 1990 as well as Marcel Bitsch
, for teaching a theory course open to composers.
Kremer is president of several musical organizations : including Musiques à vivario from 2002 to 2005 for the promotion of classical music in Corsica as well as the Association of the Vocal ensemble les Oréades, creating a repertory of baroque and contemporary music.
Joseph-François Kremer was Professor of Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics at the Schola Cantorum in Paris ; he is regularly invited in France and in other countries as a guest professor (towns of Caracas, Baku, Imatra). He currently works with the Fesnojiv Foundation of Venezuela, after having published a book on the musical and social educational system (2003). He is co-author with F. B. Mâche of the Chart of the compositional and musicological teaching at the University of Caracas, where he teaches as Professor of Aesthetic since 2001.
He has contributed to the publication of more than thirty musicological works as acting as director of several collections for the parisian publishers Méridiens- Klincksieck, Kimé and L'Harmattan.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
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...
, conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist and musicologist.
Biography
Joseph-François Kremer was born in LyonLyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
(France) in 1954. Currently director of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud of the City of Antony (Île-de-France). He is associated with an original movement in Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...
, cited in the ‘‘Larousse de la musique’’. His compositional style is situated between the formal conception of a theorised musical heritage and the research of new freely referenced musical climates. He is very sensitive to the sound qualities of contemporary music as well as the human role in the context of musical interpretation. As a cellist, he studied with Robert Cordier, Maurice Gendron
Maurice Gendron
Maurice Gendron was a French cellist and teacher. He is widely considered one of the greatest French cellists of the twentieth century....
and Claude Burgos. He studied orchestral conducting with J.C. Hartmann. As a composer, he was principally the disciple of Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif was a French composer.His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality....
.
He has written several books which deal with musical phenomenology, especially on the symbolic forms of music (1984), on the great musical topics (1994), on musical aesthetics (2000), as well as on musical theory, among them the first French reissue of Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
’s Traité d'harmonie of 1722, a project supported by the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1986, and in 1996 Rameau’s Nouveau système de musique théorique of 1726. Must be also mentioned several works of comparative aesthectics.
From 1987 to 1994, he directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble Intervalles and performed premières, as a conductor, of works by J.Y. Bosseur, C. Ballif
Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif was a French composer.His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality....
, M. Mathias, E. Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti
Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...
, as well as his own works in international festivals : in Czech Republic, Germany, France, with retransmissions on Radio-France and the Radio-Suisse- Romande. He directed the conservatory of the city of Sevran from 1985 to 1996, where he invited Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif
Claude Ballif was a French composer.His music is known as a combination of tonality and serialism - a system that he named metatonality....
to take a composition class in 1990 as well as Marcel Bitsch
Marcel Bitsch
Marcel Bitsch was a French composer, teacher and analyst. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and also was professor of counterpoint there. In his latter years he concentrated on teaching and analysing the music of J. S...
, for teaching a theory course open to composers.
Kremer is president of several musical organizations : including Musiques à vivario from 2002 to 2005 for the promotion of classical music in Corsica as well as the Association of the Vocal ensemble les Oréades, creating a repertory of baroque and contemporary music.
Joseph-François Kremer was Professor of Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics at the Schola Cantorum in Paris ; he is regularly invited in France and in other countries as a guest professor (towns of Caracas, Baku, Imatra). He currently works with the Fesnojiv Foundation of Venezuela, after having published a book on the musical and social educational system (2003). He is co-author with F. B. Mâche of the Chart of the compositional and musicological teaching at the University of Caracas, where he teaches as Professor of Aesthetic since 2001.
He has contributed to the publication of more than thirty musicological works as acting as director of several collections for the parisian publishers Méridiens- Klincksieck, Kimé and L'Harmattan.
Selected works
- Le chant de la nuit 5 pièces pour violoncelle seul
- Symphonie à 4 pour flûte, clarinette, violoncelle et piano
- Poussière d'oubli pour clarinette, violon, alto et violoncelle
- Klaviersätze n°1,2,3,4,5,6,7...
- Konzertstück pour violon et orchestre à cordes
- Aria I pour soprano, flûte, violoncelle et piano
- Aria II pour soprano, violoncelle et piano
- Aria III pour soprano et piano
- Symphonie de chambre pour solistes instrumentaux et soprano
- Symphonie No. 3
- Suite lyrique pour grand orchestre
- Anamorphose pour orchestre (1976)
- Anamorphoses II pour orchestre (1978)
- Naturalia pour grand ensemble de cuivres
- Dixtuor pour flûtes traversières
- Petite messe des morts"pour une âme retrouvée"
- Dio vi salvi regina, hymnus pour 5 voix solistes
- Saxophonie pour saxophone seul
- Petite pièce pour harpe
- Saxazeriphonie pour saxophone seul
- Contre chocs pour deux accordéons
- Permitted games pour quatuor de guitares
- Petite marche pour sextuor de cuivres
- Adagio pour un film muet pour accordéon et piano (1975)
- Symphonie No. 4 (2005)
- Dialogue pour double quintette à vents (1977)
- Summer Song 1 pour quatuor vocal et trio à vents (1994)
- Summer Song 2 pour 3 sopranos, flûte en sol, perc. et cordes (1995)
- Concerto pour flûte et orchestre à cordes (2008)