Gérard Grisey
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1946
- Died
- 1998
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Écrits
- Stele
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Gérard Grisey (born 1946; died November 11, 1998) was a French composer of contemporary music. After initial training in Germany at the Trossingen Conservatory (1963–5), he studied with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1965–7, 1968–72) and with Henri Dutilleux at the École Normale (1968), inheriting from both teachers a sensitivity to sound, harmony and orchestration. He later undertook further studies in electro-acoustics (with Jean-Étienne Marie <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
Key dates
- Born
- 17 June 1946
- Died
- 11 November 1998
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Belfort
- Place of death
- Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Olivier Messiaen
Connections
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1946 births1998 deaths20th-century French classical composers20th-century French male composersAcademic staff of the Conservatoire de ParisÉcole Normale de Musique de Paris alumniFrench male classical composersMicrotonal composersMusicians from BelfortPupils of Henri DutilleuxPupils of Karlheinz StockhausenUniversity of California, Berkeley faculty