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Philippe Capdenat was born on 17 July, 1934 in Bordeaux, France, is a French composer and academic teacher. Discover Philippe Capdenat's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?
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Philippe Capdenat (born 17 July 1934) is a French composer and academic teacher.
First a mining engineer, he started composing avant-garde music, but turned to chamber music, music for the stage (opera, ballet, play music) and vocal music, using traditional instruments.
He has been a teacher at several French universities and conservatories.
Born in Bordeaux, Capdenat attended special courses in mathematics in addition to his schooling, took piano lessons and conducted a youth choir.
From 1954 to 1958 he studied mining engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Saint-Étienne, where he also took classes in piano and composition at the conservatory.
He served in the military in Algeria for two years.
From 1960 to 1967, he worked in Paris as an engineer, but also continued to study music, with Max Deutsch at the École Normale.
He was the leader of the Chorale Jéricho and the chamber orchestra Orchestre de Chambre Philippe Capdenat.
In 1967 he toured Denmark, conducting the radio orchestra of Odense.
In 1968–69 he collaborated with Maurice Béjart in Brussels on the ballet Je fus cet enfant-là.
In 1971, he was awarded the Hervé Dugardin Prize of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM), and he decided to concentrate on music in 1978.
He composed on commissions from Radio France, the French Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre nationale de Lille and Bordeaux, and the Grand Théâtre in Tours.
From 1981 to 1991 he lectured at the Sorbonne, teaching analysis, composition, harmony and counterpoint, and also at Lyon University and Tours University (fr).
In 1990, he was awarded a prize for composers from SACEM, and in 1996 won a prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
In 1992, Capdenat was appointed professor of musical analysis and composition at the École Nationale de Musique et de Danse in Montreuil.
From 1995 to 2001 he was director of the department of contemporary music at the Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris.
In 2001, his opera Une Carmen, loosely based on Bizet's Carmen, re-imagined the topic in Arab-Andalusian style, with Carmen relocated to Morocco and instruments such as the oud, tablah, and quanun, played by Moroccan musicians.
Directed by, the Opéra Éclaté performed it at the Les Excentrés festival in Gap and on a national tour.
He then became president of the association for contemporary music Opus Open and continued in that post until 2010.
In 2011, Capdenat's Variations received the first prize in the competition of the (ONHJ, National youth orchestra), which inviting European composers to write a piece for performance.
Capdenat expressed his goal as "music open to the acquisitions of contemporary language yet retaining the desire to be clear and lyrical and avoiding both demagogy and neo-romanticism".
He composed music in genres from chamber music to opera, including aleatoric music, electroacoustics, repetitive music and serialism.
After works which were then "avant-garde", he turned to more lyrical music.
He composed Croce e delizia for Mady Mesplé, the opera Sébastien en martyr for the Tours Opera, his Requiem for the Festival d’art sacré at Dax, and Le condamné à mort and Une Carmen for the Opéra Éclaté.
The Union Nationale des Compositeurs de Musique offers a list of his works including precise scoring and durations.