33 Variations Sur Une Valse D'anton Diabelli Op. 120 Variation 16 Allegro - Music

33 Variations Sur Une Valse D'anton Diabelli Op. 120 Variation 16 Allegro by Michaël Lévinas

Michaël Lévinas

Artist Biography For Michaël Lévinas

Michaël Lévinas B. 18 April 1949 Is A Pianist And Composer Born In Paris France. He Was The Son Of The Philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas. Marguerite Long Encouraged Him To Become A Pianist And He Entered The Paris Conservatoire As A Pupil Of Lazare Lévy At The Age Of Five. He Took First Prizes In Piano Yvonne Loriod’s Class Chamber Music Accompaniment And Composition Messiaen’s Class . He Has An International Reputation As A Concert Pianist In Particular For His Study Of The Works Of Liszt And His Complete Recording Of Beethoven’s Sonatas. Co-Director Of The Paris-Based Ensemble L’Itinéraire A Collective Of Composers And Performers He Has Since 1973 Championed The Music Of His Contemporaries Scelsi George Crumb Lachenmann . Having Experienced The Influence Of Stockhausen He Turned To The Aesthetics Of ‘son Sale’ Altering Pure Sonorities From Acoustic Sources By Various Means Mechanical Appels 1974 Magnetic Concerto Pour Un Piano Éspace 1976 Electronic Ouverture Pour Une Fête Étrange 1979 And Computerized Préfixes 1991 . At IRCAM In The Early 1990s He Worked On Hybridizing The Characteristic Features Of Different Instrumental Sounds Crossing A Trombone With A Bass Drum Or A Soprano’s Laugh With The Eddy Of A Cymbal For Example . The Outcome Of These Researches Manifests Itself In His Opera Go-Gol 1996 After Gogol’s Story The Overcoat. Lévinas’s Aesthetic Is Enriched By A Sense Of The Fantastic Réminiscences D'un Jardin Férique 1987 Supported By A Liking For Birds And The Myth Of The Ascension Résonances Polyphoniques 1985 .