André Prévost (composer)

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name	André Prévost
birth_date
birth_place	Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada
death_date
death_place	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
occupation	composer and music educator
awards	Order of Canada
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André Prévost, (30 July 193427 January 2001) was a Canadian composer and music educator. He was awarded the Canadian Music Council Medal in 1977 and in 1985 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He also received the "Trophy for Concert Music" from the Performing Rights Organization of Canada.

Early life and education

He was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario. He grew up in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec.

Prévost was trained at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Isabelle Delorme, Jean Papineau-Couture, and Clermont Pépin. Following graduation, he was awarded grants from the Canada Council and the Government of Québec which enabled him to study with Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux in Paris. In 1963 he won the Prix d'Europe, an award which provided him with the opportunity to study electroacoustic music under Michel Philippot.

Career

During the 1960s Prévost taught at the Tanglewood Music Centre with fellow faculty members Aaron Copland, Zoltán Kodály, Gunther Schuller and Elliott Carter.

Performances

In April 1967, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Festival Choir conducted by Pierre Hétu performed Prévost's major oratorio Terre des hommes, text by Michèle Lalonde, at the Place des arts opening ceremonies of the Expo 67 world's fair in Montreal, attended by the official delegations of the participating countries. The work strongly projected French writer's Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 'idealist rhetoric', and the designation "Terre Des Hommes" ("Man and his World") was applied to the entire Expo 67 world exposition.

In 1985, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Ronald Turini performed the world premiere of Prévost's Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano.

Prévost composed a cello concerto Menuhin: Présence in 2000.

University position

From the mid-1970s until his retirement in 1996, he was a professor of music at the Université de Montréal. Among his notable students were composers José Evangelista, Denis Gougeon, Anne Lauber, José Manuel Montañés, and Michel Longtin.

Compositional style

His composition style has been compared to that of Alban Berg and he was regarded as a relatively conservative composer, similar to his contemporary Jacques Hétu.

Personal

Prévost died in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

References

References

1. [https://topolocal.ca/2016/05/06/salles-spectacle-andre-prevost-marie-france-danis-gilles-vigneault/ "Trois noms, deux salles, un débat"]. ''TopoLocal'', Charles Michaud, 6 May 2016
2. [http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2017/09/29/hommage-a-la-musique-melodique-et-reveuse-de-jose-evangelista/ "Hommage à la musique mélodique et rêveuse de José Evangelista"]. ''Radio Canada International'', Paloma Martínez. 29 September 2017
3. [http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.22329?rskey=8YsekD&result=3 oxfordindex.oup.com, Grove Music Online]
4. [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/4/7/m15-458-e.html "PRÉVOST, ANDRÉ, 1934- MUS 264"]. ''Music Archives at the National Library of Canada''.
5. [http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/andre-prevost-emc/ André Prévost] at [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]
6. 978-1-317-09714-3. p. 284–.
7. "André Prévost - Terre Des Hommes (1967) world premiere.{{!}} Michelle Rossignol (speaker), Albert Millaire (speaker), the Montreal Festival Choir, Jeanne Loriod (ondes martenot) and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.".
8. Krôller, Eva-Marie. [http://canlit.ca/site/getPDF/article/11882 "Expo '67: Canada's Camelot?"]{{dead link. (July 2017)
9. "Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello) and Ronald Turini (piano):André Prévost Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano {{!}} Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Ronald Turini".
10. Recital. https://www.soundset.com/album_files/DO505/jacues_hetu.pdf
11. "André Prévost - Menuhin: Présence - 2000{{!}} Lorraine Vaillancourt, chef d'orchestre, Stéphane Tétreault, violoncelle, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM)".
12. [http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm19-1/sm19-1_Gougeon_en.html "Denis Gougeon: Happy is He Who ..."]. ''La Scena'', by Réjean Beaucage / 1 September 2013
13. 978-1-4597-1481-6. p. 215–.
14. [http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm6-6/andre-en.html scena.org "Irresistibly Infectious - André Prévost (1934–2001)"]. ''La Scena'', Marie Trudel / 1 March 2001
15. [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028021/f2/08-e.pdf "André Prévost fonds"]. collectionscanada.gc.ca
16. 978-1-58046-485-7. p. 31–.

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