Georges Aperghis
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Georges Aperghis ({{langx|el|Γιώργος Απέργης}}; born 23 December 1945) is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music.{{Cite book |last=Resick |first=Georgine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2wNBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269 |title=French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context |date=2017-12-22 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-5845-7 |pages=269 |language=en}}
Career
Aperghis worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Iannis Xenakis and founded the music and theater company ATEM (Atelier Théâtre et Musique).{{Cite book |last=Heile |first=Björn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l5V2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT585 |title=The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music |last2=Wilson |first2=Charles |date=2018-10-29 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-04245-7 |pages=585 |language=en}} He was a "composer in residence" in Strasbourg, France.
In 2011 he was the first recipient of the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize. Aperghis is honored with the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music for his reinvention of music theater, using sound, gesture, space and technology and involving performers in the compositional process.
Selected works
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- Il gigante Golia (1975/1990) for voice and orchestra
- Histoire de loups (1976), opera
- Récitations (1977–78) for solo voice
- Le Corps à Corps (1978) for solo percussion (voice with Zarb)
- En un tournemain (1987) for viola solo
- Cinq Couplets (1988) for voice and bass clarinet
- Triangle carré (1989) for string quartet and three percussionists
- Simulacre (1991–95), series of four pieces for voice and small chamber groupings
- Sextuor: L'Origine des espèces (1992), opera for five female voices and 'cello
- Crosswind (1997) for viola and saxophone quartet
- Volte-face (1997) for viola solo
- Machinations (2000) musical spectacle for four female voices and computer
- Die Hamletmaschine-oratorio (2000) for choir and orchestra with soloists
- Le petit chaperon rouge (2001) for chamber ensemble
- Rasch (2001) for violin and viola
- Avis de tempête (2005), opera with chamber ensemble and electronics
- Wild Romance (2013), for soprano and chamber ensemble
- Trio Funambules (2014), for saxophone, piano and percussion (written for Trio Accanto)
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Personal life
He was born in 1945 to Greek artists Irini and Achilleas Aperghis. He lives in France and was married to actress Édith Scob until 2019 when she died.
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.aperghis.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041216041011/http://www.banffcentre.ca/theatre/history/opera/production_1996A/biography.asp The Banff Center: Who the H... is Georges Aperghis? Biography]
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- The online music review [http://www.lafolia.com/ La Folia] has review articles about Aperghis: [http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200606aperghis.html Further Aperghis Sightings], [http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200606ictus.html Ictus Rocks: New Romitelli and Aperghis on Cyprès] and [http://www.lafolia.com/archive/covell/covell200406hamletmaschine.html Georges Aperghis and Die Hamletmaschine]
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- [http://www.ubu.com/sound/aperghis.html UbuWeb Sound Poetry: George Aperghis] featuring Récitations for solo voice 1977-1978
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Category:21st-century Greek classical composers
Category:Greek classical composers
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