Michaël Lévinas

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Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist.^[1]

Born in Paris, Levinas was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris.^[2]

As an interpreter he made several recordings, mostly for Adès. Amongst these are works by Beethoven, Fauré, Scriabin, Schubert, and the complete Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach.

His father was the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and he is married to philosopher and musicologist Danielle Cohen-Levinas.

Lévinas' scores are largely published by Éditions Salabert, Éditions Henry Lemoine, Éditions Musicales Transatlantiques.

• Arsis et Thésis for flute (1971)
• Clov et Hamm for trombone, tuba, percussion and magnetic tape (1973)
• Appels for 11 instruments (1974)
• Froissements d'ailes for flute (1975)
• Ouverture pour une fête étrange for 2 orchestras and electroacoustic device (1979)
• Concerto pour piano espace #2 (1980)
• Les rires de Gilles for 5 instrumentalists and tape (1981)
• Arcades for viola and piano (1982)
• Arcades II for viola and 12 instruments (1982)
• La conférence des oiseaux, after a Persian tale of Attar (1985)
• La cloche fêlée for orchestra and electroacoustic device (1988)
• Voûtes for 6 percussionists (1988)
• Préfixes for 17 instrumentalists and electroacoustic device (1991)
• Rebonds for sextet and electroacoustic device (1993)
• Go-gol, Opera in 2 acts to a libretto by Frédéric Tristan after the stories of Gogol (1996)^[3]
• Les Lettres enlacées II: Fragments d'une lettre for viola solo (2000)
• Les nègres, Opera in 3 acts on Les Nègres of Jean Genet (2003)
• Les Lettres enlacées V for 2 violas (2006)
• La Métamorphose, after Metamorphosis of Kafka (2011)

• Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, Jean-Claire Vançon (eds.): Résonances polyphoniques. Hommage à Michaël Levinas (Paris: Centre d'édition et de recherche du Conservatoire, 2015), ISBN 2-912541-22-0.
• Pierre Albert Castanet, Muriel Joubert (eds.): La Musique de Michaël Lévinas. Vers de contrepoints irréels (Château-Gontier: Éditions Aedam musicae, 2020), ISBN 978-2-919046-65-2.

• Michaël Lévinas biography and works at Éditions Henry Lemoine
• His website in French

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