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Gilbert Amy

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French composer and conductor

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  • Ronchamp, l'exigence d'une rencontre
  • Cahiers d'épigrammes
  • Symphonies pour cinq cuivres
  • Inventions pour flûte, piano (célesta), harpe, vibraphone (marimba)
  • Diaphonies

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Country
US
Active from
1952-02-19

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Gilbert Amy (born 29 August 1936, Paris) is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod and fugue with Simone Plé-Caussade. His first compositions (Œil de fumée) date from 1955. In 1957 he met Pierre Boulez, under whose direction he composed his Piano Sonata. A year later Boulez commissioned from him a work called Mouvements which was performed in Darm

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www.gilbertamy.com
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date of birth
1936-08-29
name in native language
Gilbert Amy
start of work period
1955-00-00
birth name
Gilbert Claude Adolphe Amy
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