Komives, Janos

Janos Komives

Biography

Born: December 11, 1932 - Budapest, Hungary

Died: January 28, 2005 - Hédouville, France

Country: Hungary

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Obituary
January 28, 2005 at his home in Hédouville (Val-d'Oise), passed the composer and conductor of French Hungarian Janos KOMIVES, at the age of 72 years. Chief Inspector of Music at the Ministry of Culture (1980), artistic director of "Romantic Holidays Nohant" from 1990 to 1992, he settled in France in 1956 where he founded in 1980 including the Conservatory of Music in Châteauroux (Indre), which gathered more than 350 students since its opening. As a composer, tackling the most diverse genres, his work earned him numerous awards Prix Italia (1968 and 1978), Prix de l'Académie du Disque Lyrique (1973), Price Opera and Ballet of Geneva (1975), Orpheus of money from the SACEM (1978), René Dumesnil Award Academy of Fine Arts (1991), Grand Prix Music SACD (1992). Founder and director sets "Opus 95" and "Serenade Orchestra" with which he toured throughout Europe and realized recordings, he also devoted himself to teaching, teaching instrumentation and orchestration at the Conservatoire Higher National de Musique in Paris (1986-1988) and the Ecole Normale de Musique (1996), as well as conducting at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt (1999) until 2002.

Born December 11, 1932 in Budapest (Hungary), Janos Komives began his musical studies in 1951 at the Franz Liszt Academy in his hometown, with Zoltan Kodaly and Ferenc Farkas (which also counts among its students György Ligeti) for composition and Laszlo Somogyi, then leader of the Symphony Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio and Television, for conducting. In 1956, when the invasion of his country by the Russians, he fled to Paris and entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he completed his training in classes Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. The following year he won the famous International Competition for Young Conductors in Besançon and therefore opens her international career. During three years (1958-1961), it is at the Opera in Koblenz (Germany), then returned to France where he was invited by the major Parisian orchestras including the head of the Radio. In 1975, he was appointed head of programs at France-Music, a position he held for 3 years. The same year, he is responsible for inspection of the Meeting of municipal opera theaters in France, and in 1977 founded the Conservatory of Chateauroux and will run until 1980, the year of his appointment to the rank of senior inspector in charge creation and artistic education to the Department of Music at the Ministry of Culture. In 1990, he succeeded John Darnel as artistic director of the "Romantic Holidays Nohant," built around the house of George Sand, with a festival combining music and literature is an international success.

As a conductor, Janos Komives founded in 1979, wind orchestra "The Philharmonistes Chateauroux" became in 1990 "Opus 95, and" Serenade Orchestra "in 1996, he runs through the whole of France, with whom He toured Europe and even to Polynesia. His repertoire rather focused towards the French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, is quite large (Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, d'Indy, Dukas, Roussel, Debussy, Chabrier , PiernÃ, Hahn, Bartok, Jacques Charpentier ...) and it is the creation of several contemporary works, including Canzoni per sonar for 15 wind instruments Jean-Jacques Werner (Radio-France, 14 January 1982) and Stained Glass II for wind instruments Daniel Meier (1982). Along with many functions it performs during his career, Janos Komives never stopped composing. It will also show intense activity in this field, his compositions s 'spanning half a century, the first dating from the early fifties: 3 Songs for soprano and piano (1954), Movement for String Quartet (1955), the opera A Vörössipkas "The Soldier in red cap" (1955) and ... the last of the twenty-first century: The Claw and breath . (symphonic games), or a total of about 160 works Attached to any chapel, it covers all genres: symphonic, chamber, opera, ballet, chorus, music for film, television and radio arrangements. Among this large catalog include the oratorio for baritone, children's choir and instrumental ensemble La Vera itsoria della cantoria di Luca della Robbia (1968) and the radio test A open heart (1976) which earned him the Prix Italia twice, opera for one man with mannequin Antechamber (1975) crowned in Geneva, Interview , created in 1978 at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris by Mady Mesplé and Jacques Duby, the musical tale The Story of Nikita, dog opera singer (1970) awarded by the Académie du Disque Lyrique, the lyrical comedy The Mute the convent, or the Poor Clares who sing (1993) created Tours of the Opera, and also a Pop-Symphony for orchestra (1973), a Concerto for String Quartet (1970), a Sonata for solo violin (1958), spot on spot for Strings (1982), the Songs once for Winds (1989), Night Catechism for soprano and orchestra (1971), the children's opera The Revolution in shorts (1989), the musical The Microbe and passion (1972), music for theater Jacquou crisp , The Fowler , The Robbers ... for the radio 's Andromache , Meteor , The Plumed Serpent (19 episodes), Buddenbrooks (42 episodes) ... and for the movie Galaxy , Meet history ... and a fifty arrangements, mostly for wind ensemble or band, including the German Dances by Mozart, the Songs of a Wayfarer Mahler, the chorus of slaves the Nabucco by Verdi, the Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens, or the Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt and 9 Valses love Brahms.

Janos Komives has made ​​several recordings, including by Arion with "The Philharmonistes Chateauroux" many pieces of Joseph Haydn ( Entertainment , Military Marches ...), the Song of the World with the Symphony Orchestra of the ORTF The Book of Katuns and Salome Jean Prodomidès, and in Metropolis (Met 2599.010) with the same orchestra three of his works: Pop Symphony , Rally for string orchestra and Recitativo for orchestra, but only currently available on the market lyrical comedy in one act of after Boccaccio: The Mute at the Poor Clares convent or singing , recorded by the author at the head of a whole "Serenade Orchestra" (Maguelone 111 161) released in 2003, his play Paganini to hell for violin and wind ensemble, that he recorded with this same set, along with works by Lladov, Farkas, Zimmermann, Tomasi and Drogoz, Koch Schwann, under the title "Humoresques" (released in 1999), the Piano Sonata in B minor for Liszt (piano version and version for 15 instruments), with Karoly Mocsari and "Opus 95" under his direction (Rem disc, released in 1995 and reissued in 2001), pages of chamber music by Bizet, Liszt and Weber with the same training and the same publisher, and finally, with his "Serenade Orchestra" CD of "Impressionist Music" featuring works by Chabrier, d'Indy and Theodore Dubois (Koch Schwann, released in 1997).

Works for Percussion

Alamut, 3 pieces - Vibraphone
Ar-En-Ciel - Percussion Sextet