Renaud Gagneux is a French

France

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 composer

Composer

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At the École Normale in Paris, Renaud Gagneux studied piano with Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

 and composition with Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

. In 1966 he went to Cologne

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 to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

, then with André Jolivet

André Jolivet

André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...

 and Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 at the Paris Conservatory, where he won first prize in composition in 1972 (Weid 2001). In 1972 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales de l'ORTF. His numerous prizes include the Sacem Grand Prix for chamber music (1977), the Prix Georges Enesco (1983), the Prize for New Talent from the SACD (1989), the Composers' Prize of the Sacem (1990), and the SACEM Grand Prix 1993 for his works overall.

Compositions (selective list)

• Concerto for Double-bass and Orchestra, op. 6 (1981)
• Concerto for Tuba, Piano, and Orchestra, op. 9 (1982–83)
• Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, op. 51 (1997)
• Duo for Violin and Viola (1973)
• Requiem (1982) ISWC T-003.042.605.1
• Les échos de la mémoire, op. 13, for orchestra (1985)
• String Quartet no. 1, op. 15 (1986)
• String Quartet no. 2, op. 16 (1986)
• Qamar, op. 20, string quintet and string orchestra (1988)
• String Quartet no. 3, op. 23, 1989
• Haec Anima …, for 12 or 24 Double-basses (1992)
• Mass, op. 42, for organ (1994)

External links

Composer website: http://www.mnl-paris.com/compositeurs2/gagneuxrenaud/gagneuxrenaud.html

Details on Requiem: http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=323