Jacques Lenot
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Jacques Lenot is a French
France
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 composer
Composer
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, who has followed an independent and self-taught course. His compositional techniques are derived from serialism
Serialism
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Biography

Jacques Lenot was born in Saint-Jean d’Angély (Charente-Maritime –on the Atlantic coast of France), to a family of small tradespeople. His father, a clock-maker, came from the Doubs region, his mother originated from Champagne. Music held only a small place in his family's life: his father seldom took his violin out of its box, and his mother rarely felt the urge to play the upright piano that occupied a place of honour in the house. Nonetheless, little Jacques learned the basics of piano and solfeggio in the family circle. His parents had been regular subscribers to La Guilde du Disque, which allowed Jacques to discover in text and on records the classical works of the repertoire.

At age eight, he secretly began to compose music in the style of Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

, Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

 and Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

. He filled whole schoolboys' exercise books with music pieces bound to remain unachieved. His compositions for a long time remained centered around the piano.

In the autumn of 1961, he was admitted to the Ecole Normale d’Instituteurs (the schoolteachers' formation school) of La Rochelle
La Rochelle
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. Thanks to the music teacher of the school, the pupils tackled difficult works. Jacques suffered a lasting and inspirational shock while listening to a recording of The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring
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. At the beginning of the 1965 term, he began what remains his only teaching position as schoolteacher, at La Tremblade.

In 1963, the first edition of the Festival de Royan
Royan Festival
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 had taken place, devoted exclusively to 20th century music. For the first time, Lenot experienced this music with his inmost senses. He made the acquaintance of Cécile Midas, met again Maurice Fleuret
Maurice Fleuret
Maurice Fleuret was a French composer, music journalist, radio producer, arts administrator, and festival organizer.- Biography :...

, whom he had met formerly in La Rochelle
La Rochelle
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, and bound with him a profound and lasting friendship. He confessed to them his vocation as a composer, a secret which he had kept to himself up to that point.

In 1966, he spent his holidays attending the Darmstadt
Darmstadt
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 classes, in particular those of György Ligeti
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

 on Anton Webern
Anton Webern
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...

’s Bagatelles. There he also often met with Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel
Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...

 and Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

 (whose Gruppen and Klavierstücke he was very fond of). On his return from Darmstadt
Darmstadt
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, he composed his first completed work, Diaphanéïs, for sixty real parts of strings and metal percussions. Unknown to him, Cécile Midas, who happened to know 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...

 (both being part of the organization of the Royan Festival) laid down the score on Messiaen's office, in Paris
Paris
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. Messiaen had the score played during the Festival international d'art contemporain de Royan in 1967.

In 1968 and 1969, he profitted by the advices of Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy...

, whom he worshipped as a master, and who tried to alienate him from the influence of Darmstadt
Darmstadt
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. Thanks to Bussotti, he made the acquaintance of Goffredo Petrassi
Goffredo Petrassi
Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...

 and Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni
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. Through Donatoni he got acquainted with Giuseppe Sinopoli
Giuseppe Sinopoli
-Biography:Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen...

. Donatoni advised him to leave Bussotti’s sphere of influence.

In 1973, he tendered his resignation from the Education Nationale to devote himself entirely to composition. In 1974 he was a prize-winner of the Fondation de la Vocation (a French privately funded prize whose aim was to recognize and financially help young and gifted talents in varied fields of knowledge and creation). In the very same year, he attended the famous classes of Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna
Sienna
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.

In 1975, Harry Halbreich
Harry Halbreich
Harry Halbreich is a Belgian musicologist.He studied with Arthur Honegger and later with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire. From 1970 to 1976 he was Lecturer in Musical Analysis at the Royal Conservatory in Mons...

 commissioned him a string quartet, to be played at the Royan Festival, and at the same time a work for the famous Orchestra of the Südwestfunk Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden
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 (Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
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). Both works were created in the spring of 1977.

In December of that year, Lenot moved to Paris. He signed an exclusive contract for the publication of his works with the Editions Salabert, for whom he also worked as a transcriber (mainly of his own scores, but also of some of other composers).

In 1980, the Ensemble Intercontemporain
Ensemble InterContemporain
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 under Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

 played the first performance of Allégories d’exil IV: Dolcezze ignote all’estasi.

In 1983, Jacques Lenot got a scholarship from the Ministère de la Culture.

In 1992, he obtained from the Department of Gers (southwestern France) a post of resident composer and moves to Plaisance-du-Gers. There he organized conferences and training sessions, and composed his main body of works for piano and organ.

In 1997, he settled down in Groffliers in the Calais
Calais
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 region, in the mostly inoccupied small house of the care-taker of a big property. He received a commission from the Orchestre National de Lyon
Orchestre National de Lyon
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. Then, after Lenot had sent him his (not for sale) CD Pour Mémoire, the then director of the Opéra de Nancy Jean-Marie Blanchard asked him for a work to be played by the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique of the Lorraine town, as, so to speak, the forerunner of a future opera. Blanchard and Lenot together chose a play by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Bernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director.-Life:Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty...

, Roberto Zucco, as the subject-matter of the future opera. After his departure from Nancy, for the Grand Théâtre de Genève
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Grand Théâtre de Genève is an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland.As with many other opera houses, the Grand Théâtre de Genève is both a venue and an institution. The venue is a majestic building, towering over Place Neuve, officially opened in 1876, partly destroyed by fire in 1951 and reopened in...

, Blanchard included the work into the programme, upon which the legal beneficiaries withdrew their authorization. Blanchard and Lenot then agreed on a new subject-matter for an opera: J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne, based on the play of Jean-Luc Lagarce.

Since the year 2000, Lenot has lived in Roubaix
Roubaix
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, in northern France
France
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.

In 2003, upon a suggestion of SACEM
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.-History:...

 and with the help of a private funder, Jacques Lenot created a music publishing society L’Oiseau Prophète. The society has published on all his later music, including a number of scores reassigned by his former publisher. At the same time, he created a non-profit organization Ciels traversés for raising and managing grants, with the sole purpose of printing scores and paying for performance material.

Since 2004, preferential links have developed between Lenot and the Intrada CD publisher, created by-and-large around the composer Eric Tanguy. Helped by private but also public funding (MFA
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, FCM
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, ADAMI
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) it gave birth to four CDs dedicated only to Lenot’s piano and chamber music.

In March 2005, Jacques Lenot made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

At the end of January 2007, the opera J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne was created at the Grand Théâtre de Genève
Grand Théâtre de Genève
Grand Théâtre de Genève is an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland.As with many other opera houses, the Grand Théâtre de Genève is both a venue and an institution. The venue is a majestic building, towering over Place Neuve, officially opened in 1876, partly destroyed by fire in 1951 and reopened in...

. Hearing about the event, Joséphine Markovits, the musical art director of the Festival d’Automne à Paris, suggested that Jacques Lenot think about the creation of a sound installation with the collaboration of IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

. Supported in this step by IRCAM’s new director, Frank Madlener, Lenot decided to immerse himself into the strenuous learning of the computerized musical environment...

In 2008, the Musica Festival of Strasbourg
Strasbourg
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 dedicated him a musical portrait by creating no less than eleven of his works, among which was his fourth string quartet, played by the Arditti Quartet
Arditti Quartet
The Arditti Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1974. The quartet is associated particularly with contemporary music.-Early history:The quartet was founded in 1974 by violinist Irvine Arditti together with John Senter, Levine Andrade and Lenox Mackenzie...

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Piano solo

  • Agalma (Title after Daniel Arasse) (2008)
  • Aura (2002)
  • Avant le jour (2006)
  • Belvédères I - Livre I - 45 pedagogical pieces (1979–1980)
  • Belvédères I - Livre II - 24 pedagogical pieces (1979–1980)
  • Belvédères IV - Sphinx, pedagogical pieces for 1,2,3 or 4 pianos (1982)
  • Burrascoso (2004)
  • Cités de la nuit (Title after John Rechy) (1981–2005)
  • D'obscures étoiles (1978)
  • Dramatis personae (2007)
  • Errante, after François Couperin's Les Ombres Errantes (2006)
  • Etudes pour piano 1 à 12 (1986–1989)
  • Ils traversent la nuit (Title by José Lezama Lima) (2007)
  • Inscriptions (on Karol Szymanowski's name) (2006)
  • Là-bas (Title after Baudelaire) (2001)
  • L'esprit de solitude (2004)
  • Mascaret, after François Couperin's Les barricades mistérieuses (2006)
  • Minutiae for piano and computer handling (2009)
  • Piangendo (Allégories d'exil III) (1977–1978)
  • Préludes pour piano (24) (1986-1996-2003 revision)
  • Sans soleil (Title by Modest Moussorgski) (2007)
  • Six premières études (1984)
  • Sonate pour piano I (1971)
  • Sonate pour piano II (1978)
  • Sonate pour piano III (1979)
  • Sonate pour piano IV (1980)
  • Utopia glossa prima (1981)
  • Vier Berliner Ansichtskarten mit Johannisbeeren (2005)
  • We approach the sea (1982)

Two pianos

  • Fuge, dilecte mi (1975)
  • Inscriptions (on Karol Szymanowski's name) (2006)
  • Le Tombeau de Szymanowski (1987)
  • Possible pure land emblem III (1994)

Organ

  • Aus des Engel Ordnungen, Livre d'orgue I, 7th piece (1984)
  • Cahier d'Orgue - 109 pedagogical pieces (1996)
  • Deux pièces de fantaisie (1991)
  • Esquisses (7 pieces) (1991)
  • Fantaisies et pièces en trio (11 pieces) (1996)
  • Heureux les vents qui fuient vers les jardins... (1988)
  • La Victoire de Héraclius (1993)
  • Le Livre des Dédicaces (25 pieces) (1987)
  • Livre d'Orgue I ( 7 pieces) (1982–1990)
  • Livre d'Orgue II ( 9 untitled pieces) (1992–1994, revised 2008)
  • Livre d'Orgue III (24 pieces after Rainer Maria Rilke's 'The Book of Poverty and Death') (1994–1995)
  • Manifesto per Ligeti (2007)
  • Misti Organ Music (Title inspired by the Peruvian volcano above Arequipa) (2005)
  • Mon royaume n'est pas de ce monde (title after the Gospel of Saint John 18-36) (2004)
  • O vos omnes, after the Holy Friday Tenebrea Responsaries eleven répliques for organ that may be played separately (2007)
  • Trois pièces d'orgue dites "de Rome" (so-called "Roma" pieces) (1993–1994)

Vocal/Choral

  • Air de concert for mezzo-soprano and orchestra; texts by Jacques Lenot (1974)
  • Allégories d'exil (withdrawn version) for soprano and 5 players: flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano; texts by Jacques Lenot (1975)
  • Celui qui est couronné for counter tenor and ensemble; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1987)
  • Cinq sonnets de Louise Labé for soprano, counter tenor and 7 musicians (1971–1973)
  • Dal dolce pianto al doloroso riso for baryton and piano; texts by Michelangelo (1981-1991-2007)
  • D'Autres Belvédères for choir and ensemble (1981)
  • De elegia prima for 12 voices and 12 strings; texts by Jacques Lenot (1973)
  • Else Lasker-Schüler Lieder for contralto and piano (also versions for mezzo-soprano and soprano) (2007)
  • Espace de conflit (Allégories d'exil VII) for mezzo-soprano and 5 musicians: flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano; texts by Jacques Lenot 1978)
  • Karl Exultate for soprano and orchestra; texts by Jacques Lenot (1974)
  • La nuit (escapade) (Pédagogie) for voices and school orchestra (Effectif variable); texts by Jacques Lenot (1999–2000)
  • Le Prologue de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce I) for counter tenor and 12 solo voices ; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1986)
  • L'Ere du vaisseau for choir and orchestra; texts by Jean-Michel Buffarot (1980)
  • Le Tombeau de Henri Ledroit for soprano, solo voices, choir, oboe d'amore, cello, organ and ensemble (1988)
  • L'Infinito for soprano and 5 musicians: flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, vibraphone and harp; poem by Giacomo Leopardi
    Giacomo Leopardi
    Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...

     (1999)
  • L'Oiseau prophète. (Pédagogie) for flute, piano and children voices; texts by children (1997)
  • O beaux yeux bruns for soprano, violin, flute, vibraphone and piano; text by Louise Labé
    Louise Labé
    Louise Labé, , also identified as La Belle Cordière, , was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet...

     (2001)
  • Oper'Avventi for vocal sextet, choir and orchestra (1972)
  • Pour Mémoire II for soprano and large orchestra; texts by François Farel (1980)
  • Pour un qui est allé loin de s'amie for mezzo-soprano and piano; poem by Clément Marot
    Clément Marot
    Clément Marot was a French poet of the Renaissance period.-Youth:Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496-1497. His father, Jean Marot , whose more correct name appears to have been des Mares, Marais or Marets, was a Norman from the Caen...

     (2000)
  • Sablier noir for mezzo-soprano and piano; poem by Cléo Vachon (1979)
  • Scène for soprano, clarinet in B flat and piano; poem by Arthur Pétronio (2008)
  • Sept sonnets de Louise Labé for soprano, counter tenor and 7 musicians (2001)
  • Si les fleurs n’étaient que belles… for baryton and orchestra; words by Etienne de Senancour (Obermann
    Obermann
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     1833) (2005)
  • Soliloque de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce V) for solo counter tenor; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1986)
  • Stabat Mater for 2 counter tenors, tenor, baryton, bass, 3 violas da gamba, sackbutt and positive organ (1983)
  • Surge, aquilo for organ and bass voice ad. lib. (1999)
  • Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce, Caprice en trois tableaux for counter tenor, 12 solo voices and string quartet ; words by Jean Pierre Derrien (1986)
  • Un enchaînement si prolongé de la grâce for 12 solo voices (1983)

Solos

  • Beau calme nu for flute (1973)
  • Belvédères II - pedagogical pieces for flute (1980)
  • Belvédères III - 60 pedagogical pieces for clarinet (1981)
  • Cir(c)é for oboe d'amore (1986)
  • Conciliateur for alto flute (1991)
  • De la mélancolie for viola (1987) or violin (1989)
  • D'un seul souffle for flute (2006)
  • E anela l'alba for clarinet (1974)
  • Essai de voix for oboe (1978)
  • Il meraviglioso, anzi (Title by Alberto Arbasino) for viola (2005)
  • Karl Jubilate (de Querimonia) for cello (1973)
  • L'Ange au sourire for bassoon (1981)
  • La notte soffre for oboe (1973)
  • Licht for flute (2004)
  • Lullaby No Military Parade (Title borrowed from rock band Iliketrains) for violin (2006)
  • Migrations/Oedipe (incomplete title) for cello (1984)
  • Ohne Rilke for cello (2005)
  • Scogli for bassoon (2002)
  • Soliloque de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce V) for solo counter tenor; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1986)
  • Tormentoso for clarinet (2003)
  • Traces for cello (1969)
  • Utopia glossa quarta for bass flute (1982)
  • Utopia glossa seconda for viola (1982)

Duos

  • Alto contralto for 2 alto flutes (2005)
  • Auf Naxos for flute and harp (1989)
  • Aux Antiques rives heureuses for flute and cello (1986)
  • Dans la rue du Jeune Anacharsis (Allégories d'exil, VIII) for flute and piano (1978)
  • Distant voices for soprano saxophone and piano (1996)
  • Douze duos for violin and piano (2005)
  • Douze duos, version for clarinet and piano (2007)
  • Échappée for viola and piano (1982)
  • Esquif for viola and piano (2002)
  • Est-ce le vent for cello and piano (1979)
  • Frammento per l'armonia della notte for viola and harp (1974)
  • Habiter la terre en poète for piccolo and piano (1994)
  • In lovely blueness for cello and piano (1996)
  • La nuit venue for flute and harp (or piano) (1999)
  • La terre nous aimait un peu je me souviens, version for clarinet in B flat and piano (2006)
  • Les merveilleux nuages for piccolo and piano (2001)
  • Lied 1 Von ewiger Liebe de Brahms, en écho for clarinet in A and piano (1985)
  • Lied 2 Dryades et Pan de Szymanowski, en écho for cello and piano (1985)
  • Mit zartem Ausdruck for piccolo flute and piano (2006)
  • Mit zartem Ausdruck, version for alto and piano (2006)
  • Mit zartem Ausdruck, version for horn and piano (2006)
  • Pianto al tuo fianco for flute and piano (1975)
  • S'en aller ! S'en aller ! Parole de vivant for 2 flutes (1993)
  • Sonate for cello and piano (1982)
  • Trois pièces for viola and piano (1995)
  • Utopia glossa terza for alto flute and piano (1982)
  • Vivacissimo for flute and piano (1999)
  • Vor Sonnenaufgang for horn and piano (2006)
  • Vor Sonnenaufgang, version for flute and piano (2006)

Trios

  • Célébration (Allégories d'exil VI) for string trio (1978, revised 1984)
  • Comme de ce pur instant de mer qui précède la brise (L’esprit des Lieux II-I) for 3 clarinets (1981)
  • Elisabeth S. Elegie for flute in G, viola and horn (2006)
  • Harmonie for flute, violin and piano (1996)
  • Immer for 2 pianos and percussion (1972)
  • Larghetto con tenerezza for violin, cello and piano (2000)
  • Le promeneur solitaire (Commentary of "Souvenir de Robert Walser" by W.G. Sebald) for clarinet in A, cello and piano (2006)
  • Le Sylphe for flute, horn and harp (1997)
  • Lied 3, Ruhe, meine Seele de R.Strauss, en écho for clarinet, cello and piano (1985)
  • Lied 6, Sonate en trio en mi mineur, BWV 528 de J.S.Bach, en écho for clarinet in A, cello and piano (1986)
  • Mit zartem Ausdruck for piccolo flute, viola and piano (2002)
  • Omaggio a Donatoni for flute, violin and cello (2002)
  • Per Tre for string trio (1969)
  • Pien di quella ineffabile dolcezza for flute, vibraphone and piano (1996)
  • Quasi sospeso for violin, cello and piano (1998)
  • The Julian Trio for flute, cello and piano (1978)
  • Trio à cordes for string trio (2005)
  • Trio pour cor, violoncelle et piano for horn, cello and piano (1989)
  • Trio pour flûte, cor et piano for flute, horn and piano (2006)

String quartets

  • A propos de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce IV) (1986)
  • Aria for violin and string trio (2002)
  • Quatuor à cordes I (1997)
  • Quatuor à cordes II (2002)
  • Quatuor à cordes III (2003)
  • Quatuor à cordes IV (2004)
  • Quatuor à cordes V (2005)
  • Quatuor à cordes VI (2008)
  • Sette Frammenti (1976)
  • Trois Liebesliederwalzer (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce II) (1986)
  • Trois mouvements de quatuor à cordes (1991)
  • Un froissement, très loin, de l'air (2005)

Other quartets

  • Airs variés dans un paysage (Allégories d'exil IX) for 4 flutes (1978)
  • La terre nous aimait un peu je me souviens for clarinet in B flat, vibraphone, harp and piano (2006)
  • Lied 4, Aiguillettes en ariettes de Michel Lambert, en écho for violin, flute, oboe and bassoon (1985)
  • Lied 7, Simultan de Ingeborg Bachmann, en écho for bassoon, double bass, harp and piano (1986)
  • Livre de violes I for 4 violas da gamba (1990)
  • Mit zartem Ausdruck for piccolo flute, viola, horn and piano (2006)

Quintets

  • Allegretto gioviale for piano and string quartet (2002)
  • Clameurs for flute, English horn or clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano (1969–1970)
  • Floris Music for vibraphone, celesta, cembalo, marimba and piano (1998)
  • Inquieto for piano and string quartet (2003)
  • Inquieto, altro for piano and string quartet (2005)
  • Paysage avec figures absentes for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello (1994)
  • Quasi una partita for wind quintet (1996)
  • Quintette à cordes, after Mozart's K. 593 for string quintet (2007)
  • Quintette avec flûte for flute and string quartet (2008)
  • Quintette à vent for wind quintet (1987)
  • Sur le ton de la joie for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp (1989)
  • Utopia glossa quinta for alto, flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello and piano (1982)
  • Vogel als Prophet for alto, flute, clarinet, vibraphone, horn and harp (1998)

Sextets

  • Cavatine for cello and string quintet (1992)
  • Dans le tumulte des flots I for string sextet (1982)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II: II - Un soleil obscur à la cime des vagues for string quartet, double bass and piano (1981)
  • Uraeus for violin and string quintet (1987)

Septets

  • Der Einzige for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello (1988)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II: IV - A l'aube, le rivage for alto flute, English horn, clarinet in A, bassoon, 2 horns and trombone (1981)
  • O alter Duft for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin, viola and cello (1998)
  • Paysages de fantaisie for flute, clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello (1997)
  • Wanderlust for flute, clarinet in B flat, tenor trombone, violin, viola, cello and double bass (2009)

Concertante

  • Abrupts jeux d’ailes (title after Stéphane Mallarmé) for viola and strings (2008)
  • A.S.C. for piano and 18 musicians (1971)
  • Amarlied for cello and orchestra (1974)
  • Aria (d'après Giacomo Leopardi) for violin and string trio (2002)
  • Au bord des fleuves de Babylone for organ and orchestra (1992–1993)
  • Aux rives ultérieures for violin and 10 musicians (1988)
  • Barbelés intérieurs for 2 pianos and ensemble (1968)
  • Capriccio for flute and 11 musicians (1995)
  • Cavatine for cello and string quintet (1992)
  • Chiaroscuro version for piano and orchestra (2006)
  • Concerto pour piano et orchestre I (1975)
  • Concerto pour piano et orchestre II (1991–1993)
  • Dans le tumulte des flots II for violin, string sextet and ensemble (1982)
  • De par les rues, la mémoire for flute, piano and strings (1975)
  • Effigie for flute(s) and orchestra (1992)
  • Enclaves for cello and orchestra (1978–1979)
  • Erinnern als Abwesenheit II for piano and ensemble (2009)
  • Erinnern als Abwesenheit III for alto and ensemble (2009)
  • Espace latent (Allégories d'exil V) for piano and 8 wind instruments (1976–1978)
  • Et incarnatus est for flute, oboe, clarinet and 15 musicians (1974)
  • Exergue (Allégories d'exil I) for cello and 17 musicians (1977)
  • Inquieto, altro for piano and string quartet (2005)
  • Intermezzo for horn and orchestra (1995)
  • La Défaite de Chosroès for cello and 10 musicians (1989–1991)
  • La Gerusalemme celeste (title after the Bible) for organ and orchestra (2005)
  • La vie éternelle rayonne sur les feuilles du jardin for cello and orchestra (1998–2001)
  • Le chant de Memnon for flute and orchestra (1992)
  • Le ciel brûle d'étoiles for organ and brass (2000)
  • L'Esprit des lieux: Livre I - I - La mer à longs traits s'est retirée de mes songes for clarinet in A and 13 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux: Livre I - II - La bourrasque emporte ses funérailles vers la mer for cello and 12 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux: Livre I - III - Bientôt le soleil retrouvera ses antiques disciples for harp and 16 musicians (1981)
  • Lied 5, Soave sia il vento de Mozart, en écho for oboe, horn, piano and string sextet (1985)
  • Lied 9. " l'Archange " for clarinet and 9 musicians (1987)
  • Liens for piccolo, piano and orchestra (2006)
  • Maurice Fleuret : In Memoriam for organ and 8 wind instruments (1990)
  • Nuit d'Eté for cello and orchestra (1984)
  • Parmi les hiérarchies des anges for viola, organ and orchestra (1985)
  • Pensieri dolenti for organ and string sextet (1989)
  • Pour Mémoire I for piano and large orchestra (1980)
  • Quasi una serenata for viola and 10 musicians (1998)
  • Querimonia for cello and orchestra (1974)
  • Uraeus for violin and string quintet (1987)
  • Wie aus der Ferne for cello and 11 musicians (1998)

Ensemble

  • AL OL for orchestra (1998)
  • Avventi for large ensemble (1969)
  • Avventi - Ballet for orchestra (1973)
  • Cinquante quatre fragments sur la Déploration du Christ, Commentaire d'un tableau de Ambrogio Fossano dit 'le Bergognone', Collection Campana, Musée du Petit-Palais, Avignon for 9 musicians (2004)
  • Comme au loin for 10 wind instruments (1976–1977)
  • Concerto pour 13 instruments for 13 instruments (1987)
  • Diaphanéis for strings and percussions (1966)
  • Dolcezze ignote all'estasi (Allégories d'exil IV) for 26 musicians (1977)
  • Épitaphe (Allégories d'exil II) for wind orchestra and percussion (1977)
  • Erinnern als Abwesenheit I for ensemble (2009)
  • Hommage à Schubert pedagogical piece for orchestra (1996)
  • Im fröhlichen Ton for 12 cellos (1982–1990)
  • In illo tempore for 17 musicians (1973)
  • In lieblicher Blaüe for orchestra (1987)
  • Là eussent dû être des roses pedagogical piece for orchestra (1995)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I - IV - Où la brume venue de la mer ondoyait près de l'horizon for 12 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II - II - Un soleil obscur à la cime des vagues for string quartet, double bass and piano (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II - III - Le vent du soir ramène sa dépouille vers la grève for 19 musicians (1981)
  • Lied 8, Allein Gott in der Höh, BWV 662 de J.S.Bach, en écho for 12 musicians (1986)
  • Lux aeterna In memoriam György Ligeti for 9 musicians (2006)
  • Océan captif for 4 groups of soloists (1976)
  • Pour mémoire III for string orchestra (1980)
  • Solacium for 8 musicians (1974)
  • Torse d'espace for string orchestra (1975)
  • Un grand principe de violence commandait for 16 musicians (1980)
  • Utopia Parafrasi for 16 musicians (1983)
  • Versants for 11 solo strings (1969)
  • Versants-Traces for 11 solo strings (1972)

Orchestra

  • AL OL (1998)
  • Avventi - Ballet (1973)
  • Dans la continuité des Parques (2001)
  • Épilogue (Allégories d'exil X) (1978)
  • Sinfonia for large orchestra (1975–1977)
  • Variations (1977)

Operas

  • J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne opera (2002–2003); libretto by Jacques Lenot after Jean-Luc Lagarce's play
  • Roberto Zucco opera (commission and property of Grand Théâtre de Genève
    Grand Théâtre de Genève
    Grand Théâtre de Genève is an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland.As with many other opera houses, the Grand Théâtre de Genève is both a venue and an institution. The venue is a majestic building, towering over Place Neuve, officially opened in 1876, partly destroyed by fire in 1951 and reopened in...

    . Rights blocked) (1999–2000) after Bernard-Marie Koltès
    Bernard-Marie Koltès
    Bernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director.-Life:Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty...

    's play

Sound installations

  • Il y a (in collaboration with Eric Daubresse and Greg Beller from IRCAM
    IRCAM
    IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

    ) (2007–2009)
  • Mehr Licht (title after Goethe) (2003)

Cycles

  • Allégories d'exil I: Exergue for cello and 17 musicians (1977)
  • Allégories d'exil II: Épitaphe for wind orchestra and percussion (1977)
  • Allégories d'exil III: Piangendo for piano (1977–1978)
  • Allégories d'exil IV: Dolcezze ignote all'estasi for 26 musicians (1977)
  • Allégories d'exil V: Espace latent for piano and 8 wind instruments (1976–1978)
  • Allégories d'exil VI: Célébration for string trio (1978, revised 1984)
  • Allégories d'exil VII: Espace de conflit for mezzo-soprano and 5 musicians: flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano; texts by Jacques Lenot (1978)
  • Allégories d'exil VIII: Dans la rue du Jeune Anacharsis for flute and piano (1978)
  • Allégories d'exil IX: Airs variés dans un paysage for 4 flutes (1978)
  • Allégories d'exil X: Épilogue for orchestra (1978)

  • Belvédères I - Livre I - 45 pedagogical pieces for piano (1979–1980)
  • Belvédères I - Livre II - 24 pedagogical pieces for piano (1979–1980)
  • Belvédères II - pedagogical pieces for flute (1980)
  • Belvédères III - 60 pedagogical pieces for clarinet (1981)
  • Belvédères IV - Sphinx, pedagogical pieces for 1,2,3 or 4 pianos (1982)

  • Erinnern als Abwesenheit I for ensemble (2009)
  • Erinnern als Abwesenheit II for piano and ensemble (2009)
  • Erinnern als Abwesenheit III for alto and ensemble (2009)

  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I - I - La mer à longs traits s'est retirée de mes songes for clarinet in A and 13 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I- II - La bourrasque emporte ses funérailles vers la mer for cello and 12 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I- III - Bientôt le soleil retrouvera ses antiques disciples for harp and 16 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I- IV - Où la brume venue de la mer ondoyait près de l'horizon for 12 musicians (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- I - Comme de ce pur instant de mer qui précède la brise for 3 clarinets (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- II - Un soleil obscur à la cime des vagues for string quartet, double bass and piano (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- III - Le vent du soir ramène sa dépouille vers la grève for 19 musiciens (1981)
  • L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- IV - A l'aube, le rivage for alto flute, English horn, clarinet in A, bassoon, 2 horns and trombone (1981)

  • Lied 1, Von ewiger Liebe de Brahms, en écho for clarinet in A and piano (1985)
  • Lied 2, Dryades et Pan de Szymanowski, en écho for cello and piano (1985)
  • Lied 3, Ruhe, meine Seele de R.Strauss, en écho for clarinet, cello and piano (1985)
  • Lied 4, Aiguillettes en ariettes de Michel Lambert, en écho for violin, flute, oboe and bassoon (1985)
  • Lied 5, Soave sia il vento de Mozart, en écho for oboe, horn, piano and string sextet (1985)
  • Lied 6, Sonate en trio en mi mineur, BWV 528 de J.S.Bach, en écho for clarinet in A, cello and piano (1986)
  • Lied 7, Simultan de Ingeborg Bachmann, en écho for bassoon, double bass, harp and piano (1986)
  • Lied 8, Allein Gott in der Höh, BWV 662 de J.S.Bach, en écho for 12 musicians (1986)
  • Lied 9, L'Archange for clarinet and 9 musicians (1987)

  • Pour Mémoire I for piano and large orchestra (1980)
  • Pour Mémoire II for soprano and orchestra (1980)
  • Pour Mémoire III for string orchestra (1980)

  • Utopia glossa prima for piano (1981)
  • Utopia glossa seconda for viola (1982)
  • Utopia glossa terza for alto flute and piano (1982)
  • Utopia glossa quarta for bass flute (1982)
  • Utopia glossa quinta for alto flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello and piano (1982)
  • Utopia Parafrasi for 16 musicians (1983)

Score editors

  • Amphion (Durand-BMG)
  • Editions Françaises de Musique / Billaudot
  • L'Oiseau Prophète Editeur
  • MômeLudies / CFMI
  • Ricordi Paris (BMG)
  • Salabert (BMG)
  • Suvini Zerboni

Monographies

  • Jacques LENOT, Etude n° 1 à Etude n° 12, in « Les Etudes pour piano » Dominique My (piano), CD Una Corda ACCORD, 1992, N° 201982

  • Jacques LENOT, Le soliloque de la grâce, Le tombeau de Henri Ledroit (sur un poème de La Fontaine) I à Le tombeau de Henri Ledroit XII, in « Le tombeau de Henri Ledroit » Philippe Herreweghe, Henri Ledroit, CD FY Solstice, 1992, N° SOCD 80

  • Jacques LENOT, Wie aus der Ferne, Pien di quella ineffabile dolcezza, Vogel als Prophet, Floris Music, Harmonie, O alter Duft, in « Charmes » Sarah Veilhan (violoncelle), Ensemble transparences, dir. Sylvain Blassel, CD Etoile Production, 1999, N° EP 0004

  • Jacques LENOT, Aura, Là-bas, Scogli, Esquif, Omaggio a Donatoni, Quatuor à cordes n° 2, Allegretto gioviale, in « Liens – Musique de chambre » Quatuor Rosamonde, Henri Demarquette (violoncelle), Xavier Gagnepain (violoncelle), Pascal Gallois (basson), Vahan Mardirossian (piano), Magali Mosnier-Karoui (flûte), Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian (violon), Jean Sulem (alto), Agnès Sulem-Bialobroda (premier violon), Thomas Tercieux (second violon), CD Intrada, 2004, N° INTRA009

  • Jacques LENOT, « Œuvres pour piano volume 1 » including: Six premières études / Etude 1 à 5 ; We approach the sea ; Burrascoso ; Préludes du second livre – XIII D'un horizon dorien, XVI Wie der Abendwind, XVII Par temps gris, XVIII If there were the sound of water only, XIX Orages (différés), XX Ô toi désir, qui vas chanter, XV The name of Alice, XXI Car l'onde s'est tue, XXII Un giugno mesto, XXIII C'étaient de très grands vents, XXIV Un chant retrouvé, Winston Choi (piano), CD Intrada, 2004, N° INTRA012

  • Jacques LENOT, « Œuvres pour piano volume 2 » including: Cités de la nuit, VI – Lugubre, IV – Prestissimo, volante, V & VI (Re-recording) – Possible Pure Land Emblem I, II et III, I – Un chant éloigné, IV – Je veux de ces fragments étayer mes ruines, VII – Là eussent dû être des roses, XI – Falling Skies, VIII – En bleu adorable, XII – Je t’interroge, plénitude et c’est un tel mutisme, X – Ciels (traversés), III – Un chant éperdu, IX – Où puis-je m’enfuir ?, XIV – Maintenant il serait temps que les dieux sortent des choses habitées, II – Anges, anges, fauchez !, L’Esprit de solitude, Winston Choi (piano), CD Intrada, 2006, N° INTRA017

  • Jacques LENOT, « Œuvres pour piano volume 3 » including: Agalma ; Avant le jour ; Dramatis personae ; Errante ; Ils traversent la nuit ; Inscriptions sur le nom de Karol Szymanowski ; Mascaret ; Sans soleil, Winston Choi (piano), CD Intrada, to be issued (2009), N° INTRA044

Other recordings

  • Jacques LENOT, Lied VI, in « Alain Damiens, clarinette » (with works by Philippe Fénelon, Vinko Globokar, Philippe Haim, Iannis Xenakis), Alain Damiens (clarinet), CD MFA, 1991, N° 581277

  • Jacques LENOT, Livre d’Orgue, extrait V, in « Pierre Bousseau » (with works by György Ligeti, Claude Vivier, Bernard Cavanna, Giacinto Scelsi, Jeannine Richer, Arvo Pärt), CD ADDA, 1991, N° 581240

  • Jacques LENOT, Dans la rue du jeune Anacharsis, in « Allégories d’exils » (with works by Hans Werner Henze, Arthur Petronio, Ferrucio Busoni, Hany Fouad), Jean-Louis Beaumadier (flutes), Jacques Reynaut (piano), CD Calliope, 1995, N° 9227

  • Jacques LENOT, Ciels (traversés), Esquisse du prélude 12, in « Le piano contemporain », Dominique My (piano), CD Accord, 1996, N° 205752

  • Jacques LENOT, Tormentoso, in « Œuvres pour clarinette seule » (with works by Edison Denisov, Éric Tanguy, Franco Donatoni, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Igor Stravinsky), Nicolas Baldeyrou (clarinet), CD Intrada, 2004, N° INTRA010

  • Jacques LENOT, Mon royaume n'est pas de ce monde, in « Concerts au grand orgue de Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Paris) » (with works by Jehan Alain, César Franck, Marcel Dupré…), Marie-Claire Alain, Yves Castagnet, Thierry Escaich, Vincent Warnier (organs), CD Intrada, 2005, N° INTRA018

  • Jacques LENOT, La Gerusalemme celeste, in « Autour du concerto pour orgue de Poulenc » (with works by Francis Poulenc, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Daniel Roth), Vincent Warnier (organ), Les Siècles orchestra (conductor: François-Xavier Roth), CD Intrada, 2006, N° INTRA028

Further reading

  • Michel, Pierre. 2001. "Lenot, Jacques". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie
    Stanley Sadie
    Stanley Sadie CBE was a leading British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , which was published as the first edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Sadie was educated at St Paul's School,...

     and John Tyrrell
    John Tyrrell (professor of music)
    John Tyrrell was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia in 1942. He studied at the universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Brno. In 2000 he was appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University....

    . London: Macmillan Publishers.

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