André_Prévost_(composer)
André Prévost (composer)
Canadian composer and music educator
André Prévost, OC (30 July 1934 – 27 January 2001) was a Canadian composer and music educator.[1][2] He was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977 and in 1985 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He also received the "Trophy for Concert Music" from the Performing Rights Organization of Canada.[3][4]
André Prévost | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1934-07-30)30 July 1934 Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 27 January 2001(2001-01-27) (aged 66) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | composer and music educator |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
He was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario.[5] He grew up in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.[6]
Prévost was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Isabelle Delorme, Jean Papineau-Couture, and Clermont Pépin. Following graduation, he was awarded grants from the Canada Council and the Government of Québec which enabled him to study with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux in Paris. In 1963 he won the Prix d'Europe, an award which provided him with the opportunity to study electroacoustic music under Michel Philippot.
During the 1960s Prévost taught at the Tanglewood Music Centre with fellow faculty members Aaron Copland, Zoltán Kodály, Gunther Schuller and Elliott Carter.
Performances
In April 1967, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Festival Choir conducted by Pierre Hétu performed Prévost's major oratorio Terre des hommes, text by Michèle Lalonde, at the Place des arts opening ceremonies of the Expo 67 world's fair in Montreal, attended by the official delegations of the participating countries.[7] The work strongly projected French writer's Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 'idealist rhetoric',[8] and the designation "Terre Des Hommes" ("Man and his World") was applied to the entire Expo 67 world exposition.
In 1985, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Ronald Turini performed the world premiere of Prévost's Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano.[9][10]
Prévost composed a cello concerto Menuhin: Présence in 2000.[11]
University position
From the mid-1970s until his retirement in 1996, he was a professor of music at the Université de Montréal.[12][13] Among his notable students were composers José Evangelista, Denis Gougeon, Anne Lauber, José Manuel Montañés, and Michel Longtin.[14][15]
Compositional style
His composition style has been compared to that of Alban Berg and he was regarded as a relatively conservative composer, similar to his contemporary Jacques Hétu.[16]
Prévost died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[5]
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- "Hommage à la musique mélodique et rêveuse de José Evangelista". Radio Canada International, Paloma Martínez | 29 September 2017
- "PRÉVOST, ANDRÉ, 1934- MUS 264". Music Archives at the National Library of Canada.
- Robert Fallon. Messiaen Perspectives 2: Techniques, Influence and Reception. Taylor & Francis; 22 April 2016. ISBN 978-1-317-09714-3. p. 284–.
- Krôller, Eva-Marie. "Expo '67: Canada's Camelot?"[permanent dead link] Canadian Literature, Spring–Summer 1997, Issue 152–153, pp. 36–51.
- "Denis Gougeon: Happy is He Who ...". La Scena, by Réjean Beaucage / 1 September 2013
- Walter Pitman. Elmer Iseler: Choral Visionary. Dundurn; 28 July 2008. ISBN 978-1-4597-1481-6. p. 215–.
- scena.org "Irresistibly Infectious - André Prévost (1934–2001)". La Scena, Marie Trudel / 1 March 2001
- "André Prévost fonds". collectionscanada.gc.ca
- Bob Gilmore. Claude Vivier: A Biography. Boydell & Brewer; 2014. ISBN 978-1-58046-485-7. p. 31–.