Michaël Lévinas

Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist.[1]

Michaël Lévinas

Biography

Born in Paris, Levinas was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris.[2]

As an interpreter he made several recordings, mostly for Adès. Amongst these are works by Beethoven, Fauré, Skriabin, Schubert, and the complete Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach.

His father was the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and he is married to philosopher and musicologist Danielle Cohen-Levinas.

Selected works
Lévinas' scores are largely published by Éditions Salabert, Éditions Henry Lemoine, Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.
  • Arsis et Thésis for flute (1971)
  • Clov et Hamm for trombone, tuba, percussion and magnetic tape (1973)
  • Appels for 11 instruments (1974)
  • Froissements d'ailes for flute (1975)
  • Ouverture pour une fête étrange for 2 orchestras and electroacoustic device (1979)
  • Concerto pour piano espace #2 (1980)
  • Les rires de Gilles for 5 instrumentalists and tape (1981)
  • Arcades for viola and piano (1982)
  • Arcades II for viola and 12 instruments (1982)
  • La conférence des oiseaux, after a Persian tale of Attar (1985)
  • La cloche fêlée for orchestra and electroacoustic device (1988)
  • Voûtes for 6 percussionists (1988)
  • Préfixes for 17 instrumentalists and electroacoustic device (1991)
  • Rebonds for sextet and electroacoustic device (1993)
  • Go-gol, Opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Frédéric Tristan after the stories of Gogol (1996)[3]
  • Les Lettres enlacées II: Fragments d'une lettre for viola solo (2000)
  • Les nègres, Opera in 3 acts on Les Nègres of Jean Genet (2003)
  • Les Lettres enlacées V for 2 violas (2006)
  • La Métamorphose, after Metamorphosis of Kafka (2011)

Selected bibliography
  • Pierre Albert Castanet, Muriel Joubert (eds.): La Musique de Michaël Lévinas. Vers de contrepoints irréels (Château-Gontier: Éditions Aedam musicae, 2020), ISBN 978-2-919046-65-2.

References
  1. 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2015, p. 52. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0
  2. Célestin Deliège: Cinquante ans de modernité musicale: de Darmstadt à l'IRCAM (Sprimont: Mardaga, 2003), p. 902.
  3. Composer un opéra aujourd'hui: Actes de la journée d'étude du 13 ... - Page 86 Béatrice Ramaut-Chevassus - 2003 "À présent, les synthétiseurs et les effets acousmatiques sont rois: dans Go-gol (1995-1996) - écrit d'après deux nouvelles de Gogol18 -, le compositeur Michaël Lévinas a synthétisé à loisir diverses classes de modèles de résonance afin que ..."
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