French composer (1932–2020) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alain Henri Bernaud (8 March 1932 – 4 December 2020) was a French composer.
Alain Bernaud, 1959
Bernaud was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine of a polytechnician father, a good violinist and violist and a mother playing the piano, daughter of Marcel Chadeigne[1] who was, before and after the First World War, choir conductor at the Paris Opera and pianist - accompanist - decipherer - reducer of orchestral scores.
He then followed Jules Gentil's piano class (1st medal) - studied harmony with Jacques de La Presle (1st prize) - counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon (1st medal and 1st prize) - finally musical composition with Tony Aubin (1st Prix de Rome in 1953 with Ouverture à la française for 2 pianos). He won the 2nd Prix de Rome in 1955 with the cantataLe Rire de Gargantua then 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1957 with the cantata La fée Urgèle. Bernaud stayed 40 months at the Villa Médicis,[2] a stay during which he wrote a quartet for saxophones, Les chants de la jungle - six melodies for baritone and string orchestra on poems from Rudyard Kipling, a Symphony, an Ouverture pour orchestre de chambre (1960), a Messe brève for mixed choir and organ (1958), a Nocturne pour orchestre à cordes, Sept mélodies pour flûte et mezzo soprano on poems by Omar Khayyam.
Back in France, he wrote scores for television shows Présence du passé, for short films and also feature films and was appointed, in 1963, professor of solfege for instrumentalists at the Conservatoire de Paris, and a little later, in 1971, harmony teacher in the same establishment. He provided this teaching there until the end of 1999. He is currently retired in northern Brittany and continues to compose and put in order his existing production.
1950s
1951: Sonate pour violon et piano
1953: Ouverture à la française for 2 pianos
1955: Concerto lyrique for clarinet and orchestra (Ed. Alphonse Leduc)
1957: Récitatif et air for clarinet and piano (Ed. Leduc)
1958: Capriccio rustique for oboe and piano (Ed. Leduc)
1959: Suite en trois mouvements: Ouverture, Sarabande & Gigue pour grand orchestre
1959: Chants de la Jungle, after Kipling for baritone and string orchestra (Ed. Combre)
1960s
1963: Pavane et saltarelle for trumpet and piano (Ed. Ricordi)
1964: Humoresque for tuba (or Bb saxhorn or cello) and piano (Ed. Max Eschig)
1965: Diptyque for oboe and piano (Ed. Leduc)
1965: Cadence pour le concerto de piano K491 de Mozart (Ed. Musimage)
1966: D’une extrême gravité, 2 pieces for double bass and piano (Ed. Leduc)
1967:Trois pièces pour les percussions (Ed. Rideau Rouge)
1968: Contrastes for viola and piano (Ed. Rideau Rouge)
1969: Réversibilité for violin and piano (concours J. Thibaud 1969 - Édition Rideau Rouge)
1970s
1970: Phantasmes for clarinet and piano (Ed. Rideau Rouge)
1972: Obliques for cello and piano (Ed. Rideau Rouge)
1973: Incantation et danse for flute and piano (Ed. Rideau Rouge)
1973: Magyar for violin and piano (concours Jacques Thibaud 1973 - Ed. Rideau Rouge)
1974: Sonate pour les deux saxophones, soprano and bariton (Ed. Combre)
