biography
pronunciation:
[barakay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928–73)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Puteaux, near Paris, NC France. At the Conservatoire he attended classes (1948–51) with Langlais and Messiaen. The latter introduced him to serialism, and Barraqué composed a ‘Hommage’ to him in 1958. He was a member of the Musique Concrète group of Radio Télévision Française, where he used electronic instruments, as in Etude (1954). He invented the ‘séries proliférantes’ but rejected aleatoric music, and the imposing Sonate in two movements of 20 minutes (1950–2) illustrates his taste for vast proportions. He was unable to finish La mort de Virgile from a text by Hermann Broch which looked set to surpass the dimensions of the ‘Tétralogie’. |
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