Maurice Fleuret
Maurice Fleuret (22 June 1932 – 22 March 1990) was a French composer, music journalist, radio producer, arts administrator, and festival organizer.
Biography
Born in
In 1955 he became a lecturer of the
Obsessed by the desire "to understand contemporary music", he began his collaboration at the
But even if his articles had "as high a profile abroad as in France",[1] he could not just criticize the ideas of others without trying to form his own. In 1967, he decided to abandon his lecturing to devote himself to entering into music in new environments. From 1967 to 1974, he organized the Journées de Musique Contemporaine de Paris (Days of Contemporary Music Paris), where he brought together some twenty thousand people in cycles devoted to composers such as Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, or Pierre Henry.
Although his primary interest was in contemporary music, he was also very active as an ethnomusicologist, making over thirty journeys to Africa and Asia, and in particular doing field work in West Africa in 1966 and 1967. He also organized many concerts of traditional African and Asian music in Europe.[2]
He directed with the same success enterprises as diverse and unique as the
When the Socialists came to power under
He preferred from that time to concern himself with the
Writings
- 1962. Musique hongroise. France-Hongrie, numéro spécial 74–75.
- 1978. Xenakis: 78: introduction, biographie, catalogue des oeuvres, discographie, bibliographie, statistiques et documents. [Paris]: Salabert. Second edition, 1981.
- 1981. Régards sur Iannis Xenakis. Paris: Stock.
- 1984. Claude Ballif: compositeur de l'été ... : réalisé à l'occasion du Festival estival de Paris, 1984. La Revue Musicale, nos. 370–71. Paris: La Revue Musicale.
- 1989. Joseph Kosma, 1905–1969: un homme, un musicien. La Revue Musicale, nos. 412–15. Paris: La Revue Musicale.
- 1992. Chroniques pour la musique d'aujourd'hui, preface by Jean Daniel. Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône): Editions Bernard Coutaz. ISBN 2-87712-049-X. [Collection of analyses of fifty-four musicians, selected from the journalistic output of Maurice Fleuret.]
References
- Daniel, Jean. 2003. La Blessure (1992). In his Œuvres Autobiographiques. Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle.
- Daniel, Jean. 2004. Cet étranger qui me ressemble: entretiens avec Martine de Rabaudy. Paris: Grasset. ISBN 2-246-66741-0.
- Jacques Lonchampt. 1990. "La mort de Maurice Fleuret", Le Monde (23 March).
- Tyrrell, John, eds. (2001). "Fleuret, Maurice". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan.
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Lonchampt 1990.
- ^ a b Grove Dict. 2001.
- ^ Grove Dict. 2001; Lonchampt 1990.
- ^ Daniel 2004, p. 34.
- ^ Daniel 2003, p. 430.