- Saint Preux
Saint-Preux (born 1950) is a contemporary French
composer who has been composing from his youth on. In August 1969 he took part in theSopot International Song Festival inPoland where the then 19-year old successfully conducted asymphony orchestra and won a prize with his first grand composition "Le valse d'enfance" (engl. "The waltz of youth"). Encouraged by this appreciation Saint-Preux was able to work all nights long on his second composition "Concerto pour une voix" (engl. "Concerto for one voice") whilst his stay in Poland. It was this second oeuvre that gained broad recognition and which placed the young composer among the forefront of the musical scene. He finally achieved his breakthrough in public with the titles "Le Piano sous la mer" (engl. "The piano under the sea"), "La Fête triste" (engl. "The sad festival"), "Missa Amoris" and "Symphonie pour la Pologne" (engl. "Symphony for Poland").Using his popularity to further the humanitarian cause of
Unicef Saint-Preux composed "Les cris de la Liberté" (engl. "The cries of Liberty"), ahymn onpeace andhuman rights , for the festivities of the bicentennial anniversary of thestorming of the Bastille . It was during this event that Saint-Preux metPope John Paul II whom he also dedicated "Les cris de la Liberté" to.Saint-Preux has been given the opportunities to work together with some of the greatest orchestras, among them the
London Symphony Orchestra , the Polish Symphony Orchestra, the Choirs of Krakow, the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Montreal.Recently, Saint-Preux adapted "Concerto pour une voix" to be sung by two singers. This latter version "Concerto pour deux voix" (engl. "Concerto for two voices") gained wide public attention in France when the composer's daughter Clemence sung it together with the young singer
Jean-Baptiste Maunier .Discography
"Concerto pour une voix" (1969)
"Le piano sous la mer" (1972)
"La passion" (1973)
"La fête triste" (1974)
"Your hair & Missa Amoris" (1975)
"Concerto pour piano" (1975)
"Symphonie pour la Pologne" (1977)
"To be or not" (1980)
"Le paino d'Abigaïl" (1983)
"Atlantis" (1983)
"Phytandros" (1991)
"Free Yourself" (1999)
"The last opera" (1994)External links
* http://www.saint-preux.fr
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