Marcel Mihalovici was a French composer born in Romania. He was discovered by George Enescu

George Enescu

George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...

 in Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

. He moved to Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 in 1919 (at age 21) to study under Vincent d'Indy

Vincent d'Indy

Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...

. His works include his Sonata number 1 for violin and piano (1920), Mélusine opera (1920, libretto by Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll, born Isaac Lange , was a French-German poet who was perfectly bilingual and wrote in both French and German...

), his 1st string quartet (1923), 2nd string quartet (1931), Sonata number 2 for violin and piano (1941), Sonata for violin and cello (1944), Phèdre Opera (1949), Étude in two parts for piano and instrumental ensemble (1951) and Esercizio per archi (1960). Many of his piano works were first performed by his wife and renown concert pianist Monique Haas

Monique Haas

Monique Haas was a French pianist.Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire there with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a Premier Prix in 1927. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin and Robert Casadesus. She was married to the French-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici...

.

Mihalovici was the original composer for the music of Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...

's Cascando

Cascando

Cascando is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in French in December 1961, subtitled Invention radiophonique pour musique et voix, with music by the Franco-Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici. It was first broadcast on France Culture on 13 October 1963 with Roger Blin and Jean Martin...

(1962). His Fifth Symphony features a soprano singing a setting of a Beckett

Beckett

- People :* Arthur William à Beckett , English journalist and man of letters* Barry Beckett , American musician* Billy Beckett , English footballer...

 poem, and he used Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. Consisting of a cast of one man, it was originally written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue"...

as the basis for a small opera, Krapp, ou, La dernière bande. His memories of their friendship are recounted in the collected work Beckett at Sixty A Festschrift by John Calder, Calder and Boyars (1967).

List of Works (by opus number)

(works with op. ?? are placed approximately by date)

• op. 6 - Three Nocturnes; piano
• op. 11 - Sonatine; piano
• op. 12 - Dialogues; clarinet and piano
• op. 13 - Sonatine; oboe or violin and piano
• op. 18 - Chansons et Jeux (Romanian Poems); voice and piano
• op. 19 - Impromptu Pieces; piano
• op. ?? - Sonata no. 1; violin and piano
• op. ?? - String Quartet no. 1
• op. 23 - Karagueuz; puppet ballet for orchestra or 4H piano
• op. 27 - L'intransigeant Pluton ou, Orphee aux Enfers; opera in one act
• op. 28 - Chindia; radio-orchestra
• op. 29 - Four Caprices; piano
• op. 30 - Trio 'Serenade'; violin, viola, and cello
• op. 31 - String Quartet no. 2
• op. 32 - Chanson, Pastorale, Romanian Dance; piano
• op. 33 - Concerto (Quasi una Fantasia); violin and orchestra
• op. 35 - Sonata; clarinet trio (Eb, A, and bass in Bb)
• op. 37 - Five Bagatelles; piano
• op. 38 - Divertissement; small orchestra
• op. 40 - Rhapsody Concertante; orchestra
• op. 42 - Prelude and Invention; string orchestra
• op. 44 - Toccata; piano and orchestra (or 2 pianos)
• op. 45 - Sonata no. 2; violin and piano
• op. 46 - Ricarcari, Variations; piano
• op. 47 - Sonata; viola and piano
• op. ?? - Sequences; orchestra
• op. 50 - Sonata; violin and cello
• op. 51 - Contrerimes, 3 songs; voice and piano
• op. 52 - String Quartet no. 3
• op. 54 - Variations; horns and strings
• op. 58 - Phedre; opera in five scenes
• op. 59 - Sonata; solo violin
• op. 60 - Sonata; solo cello
• op. 61 - Ritournelles; orchestra
• op. 62 - Four Pastorales; piano
• op. 63 - Three Nocturnes; piano
• op. 64 - Etude in Two Parties; piano, winds, brass, celeste, and percussion
• op. 65 - Sinfonia Giocosa (Symphony no. 1); orchestra
• op. 66 - Sinfonia Partita (Symphony no. 2); string orchestra
• op. 67 - Two Poesies D'Agrippa D'Aubigne; SATB chorus
• op. 68 - Memorial (Five Motets); chorus
• op. ?? - Symphonies for Present Times; orchestra
• op. 70 - The Homecoming; opera in one act
• op. 71 - Trio; oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
• op. 72 - Elegy; orchestra
• op. 73 - Scenes from Thesee (Ballet); orchestra
• op. 74 - Alternamenti (Ballet); orchestra
• op. 75 - Evening Songs, Four Poems of Yvan Goll; voice and piano
• op. 76 - Tragic Overture; orchestra
• op. ?? - Sonata; bassoon and piano
• op. 78 - Sonata; Bb clarinet and piano
• op. ?? - Scherzo-Waltz; Bb trumpet and piano
• op. ?? - Meditation; C or Bb trumpet and piano
• op. ?? - Novelette; bassoon and piano
• op. ?? - Episode; F horn and piano
• op. 80 - Exercise; string orchestra
• op. 81 - Krapp's Last Tape (Beckett); opera
• op. 82 - Sinfonia Variata (Symphony no. 3); orchestra
• op. 83 - Improvisations; percussion and piano
• op. 84 - The Twins; opera in three acts
• op. 87 - Musique Nocturne; clarinet and chamber orchestra
• op. 88 - Sinfonia Cantata (Symphony no. 4); baritone, mixed chorus, and orchestra
• op. 89 - Aubade; string orchestra
• op. 90 - Sonata; piano
• op. 92 - Dialogues; clarinet and piano
• op. 93 - Periples; small orchestra
• op. 94 - Symphony no. 5 (in memory of Hans Rosbaud)
• op. 95 - Pretexts; oboe, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, and strings
• op. 96 - Variantes; F horn and piano
• op. 97 - Cantus Firmus; two pianos
• op. 98 - Rondo; orchestra
• op. 99 - Serioso; bass saxhorn and piano
• op. 100 - Cantilene; mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra
• op. 101 - Recit; solo clarinet
• op. 102 - Melopeia; oboe solo
• op. 103 - Chant Premier (Sonata); tenor saxophone and orchestra
• op. 104 - Texts; viola and piano
• op. 105 - Passacaglia for One Hand; piano
• op. 106 - Follia, Paraphrases; orchestra
• op. 107 - Delie (Cantata); soprano and orchestra (or piano)
• op. 108 - Sonata-Danse; cello and piano
• op. 109 - Malinconia (Cantata); soprano, bass, string quartet, and orchestra
• op. 110 - Sonata; viola solo
• op. 111 - String Quartet no. 4
• op. 112 - Mirror of Songs; flute and piano
• op. 113 - Torse (Meditation); violin solo
• op. 114 - Elegy no. 2; violin and piano