Ginette Keller
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Biography
Keller studied at the Conservatoire de ParisConservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris is a college of music and dance founded in 1795, now situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France...
with Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
, Tony Aubin
Tony Aubin
Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin was a French composer.From 1925 to 1930 Aubin studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau , Noel Gallon , Philippe Gaubert , and Paul Dukas . He was awarded the Prix de Rome for the cantata Actaeon in 1930...
and Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
. In 1951 she won the Second Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...
with her cantata Et l’Homme vit se rouvrir les portes. She taught aural training at the Conservatoire and analysis and counterpoint at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.
She has composed for solo instruments, chamber and orchestral music. She has also written two operas with librettos by Alain Germain.
Selected works
- Six chants de Lumière et d'Ombre for winds quartet, 1965
- Variables, premiered in 1966
- Chant de Parthénope for flute & piano, 1968
- Girations pfor percussion & piano, 1970
- Graphiques for soprano and ensemble, premiered at Festival International du Son 1971
- Ebauches for fagot & piano, 1973
- Les Vieilles Dames d'Osnabrück, Opera, premiered in 1983
- Les adieux d'une cantatrice sans mémoire, Opera, premiered in 1986
- Vibrations pour harpe celtique, 1990
- Dialogues for clarinet & piano, 1992
- Sept mouvements incantatoires for four percussions, drums, celesta & a bowed instrument
- Paramorphoses for metals orchestra, piano & percussion
- Et l’Homme vit se rouvrir les portes, cantata
- Dialogues for clarinet & piano
- Tropes for piano