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Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (born 30 March 1945) is a Russia

Russia

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n-born composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

who lives in Switzerland

Switzerland

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. He is one of the first composers of minimalism

Minimalism

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

(from 1969); "La Belle Musique N.3" (1977) is the first work for orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

in the minimalist field. He emigrated to Paris from Moscow in 1974, and now lives in Switzerland.

Selected works

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky defined his musical conceptions as <>.

Rabinovitch-Barakovsky's main works are all part of a global work-in-progress called "Anthology of Archaic Rituals - In Search of the Center".

"Les mots de Andrei Biely" (1969) cantata
Cantata
A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....
"Le point d'appui trouvé" (1970) chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
"Happy end"" (1972) electro-acoustic piece
"La Belle Musique n°2" (1974) chamber music
"Perpetuum mobile?" (1975) amplified violin solo, amplified piano, amplified vibraphone
Vibraphone
The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

" (+ amplifed campanelli)
"Le récit de voyage" (1976) violin, cello, marimba, piano" (dedicated to Alexei Lubimov
Alexei Lubimov
Alexei Lubimov is a Russian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist.Alexei Lubimov studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Heinrich Neuhaus and Lew Naumov...

)
"La Belle Musique n°3" (1977) for orchestra
"Requiem pour une marée noire" (1978) amplified soprano, amplified vibraphone, amplified piano
"Entente cordiale" (1979) amplified piano and orchestra
"Litanies" (1979) string quartet and vibraphone
"Musique populaire" (1980) 2 amplified pianos, 2 amplified marimbas, amplified celesta
"Discours sur la délivrance" (1982) amplified cello solo, amplified piano, amplified clavinova, amplified vibraphone
"La belle musique n°4" (1987) for 4 amplified pianos
"Cantique pour Orfeo" (1987) amplified baryton, amplified vibraphone, amplified piano, amplified celesta
"In illo tempore" (1989) sinfonia concertante for 2 amplified pianos and chamber orchestra
"Musique populaire" (1994) 2 amplified pianos and orchestra
"3 Invocations" (1995) string quartet and amplified celesta
" Incantations" (1996) sinfonia concertante for amplified piano (+ amplified celesta) and chamber orchestra
"6 Etats intermédiaires" (1997–98) sinfonia for orchestra, based on the Bardo Thödol
Bardo Thodol
The Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State , sometimes translated as Liberation Through Hearing or Bardo Thodol is a funerary text...

(Tibetan Book of the Dead)
"La Triade" (1998) sinfonia concertante for amplified violin and orchestra
" Retour aux sources" (1999) Sinfonia for orchestra" (dedicated to Vladimir Yankilevsky
Vladimir Yankilevsky
Vladimir Borisovich Yankilevsky is a Russian artist known mostly for his participation in the Soviet Nonconformist Art movement of the 1960s through the 1980s...

)
"La harpe de David" (1999) sinfonia concertante for amplified cello and orchestra
" The celtic harp" (2000) sinfonia concertante for amplified violin, amplified viola and orchestra
"Die Zeit" (2000) for four amplified instruments: violin, cello, piano, celesta (dedicated to Maria Balkan)
"Le Tryptique" (2000)," sinfonia for orchestra
"Les trois Gunas" (2001) for amplified flute, amplified clarinet, amplified clavinova, amplified vibrafono+marimba+campanelli" (1 percussionist), amplified piano
"Jiao" (2004) for 11 strings, amplified celesta, amplified vibraphone, amplified clavinova
"Maithuna" (2005) sinfonia concertante for orchestra
"Les Chants-Spirales" (2006) for amplified vibraphone solo, amplified clavinova, amplified piano
"3 Manas" (2009) for amplified piano or amplified electric piano
"Opus Magnum" (2010) Sinfonia concertante for chamber orchestra in three movements : Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo

Selected Discography

Tantric Coupling, 2006 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7802
Pura Cosa Mentale, 2004 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7812/11
Die Zeit, 2001 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7822
La Triade, 2000 DORON Music, Switzerland DRC 3033
Incantations, 1999 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7831
An Introduction to Alexandre Rabinovitch, 1996 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7846
Alexandre Rabinovitch Oeuvres pour Piano, 1994 VALOIS-Naive, France V 4694

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