1.
A new MEGA CATALOGUE of all works by Aperghis so far, bringing together Salabert pieces AND self-published ones, is now available in pdf [February 2018]
​ 
2.
Le catalogue des oeuvres de Georges Aperghis est présenté ​ci-dessous sous forme de table ;
il est classé selon l'ordre alphabétique et accompagné de renseignements détaillés.
Les œuvres publiées à compte d'auteur ("self-published") sont téléchargeables sur cette page. Les problèmes épineux sont généralement résolus par Emilie Morin, dont vous trouverez l'adresse email sur la page contact.
​Remarques :
* Suivez ce lien pour bien déchiffrer la nomenclature d'orchestre.
​*​ Les articles sont conservés : ​"Le rire physiologique", par exemple, est classé à L.
* Plus de quarante notes de programme sont disponibles sur la page "Notices".
* Une curiosité pour connaisseurs : le Catalogue Noir (pièces retirées de circulation).

titre

année

dur.

instrumentation

création

code durand

commentaire

14 Jactations

2001

30

For Baritone

Creation : 2002, Musica festival in Strasbourg, Lionel Peintre

D. & F. 01552500

CD Vand’œuvre Réf. 042. Distribution Muséa, Metamkine, les Allumés du jazz, Improjazz -

280 mesures pour clarinette

1979

10

For 1 clarinet player

Creation : 7.07.1980, La Rochelle “Rencontres
Internationales d'Art Contemporain” by Michel Portal

SLB 00574800

Disc Simulacres by Accroche-Note ensemble Accord ACRD4761635

À bout de bras

1989

6

For oboe and clarinet
And
For 2 clarinets

Creation : June 1989, Saint-Denis festival by Jean-Claude Malgoire (ob) and Michel Portal (cl)

SLB 005750700/

00575100/

00258600

CD “Simulacres” Universal/Accord - Accroche Note ensemble

À Tombeau ouvert (1997)

1997

21

For piano solo

Creation : 6.12.2000, Radio France - Paris by Vincent Leterme

D. & F. 01509000

CD NEOS 10912 - Nicolas Hodges

Alter ego

2001

8

For saxophone ténor

Creation : 15.11.2001, Wien Modern festival- Konzerthaus by Marcus Weiss

D. & F. 1543200

CD Kairos 0012942KAI, Marcus Weiss, Xasax, Geneviève Strosser

Alter-Face

2004

14

For 2 pianos

Creation : October 23rd 2004, Lille opera by Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Jean-Luc Plouvier

self-published

 

Ascoltare stanca

1972

10

For 18 instrumentalists :
1(pic).2.0.0-2.0.0.0, pno, keyboard, str (3.3.2.2.1)

Creation : 1972, Venise festival, I Solisti Veneti,
Claudio Scimone (cond.)

Salabert 3443

 

Avis de Tempête

2004

70

For soprano, 2 baritones, dancer-actress, electronics video and ensemble :
0.1.0.0-1.1.1.0-guitar el., 2 keyboards, 0.0.1.1.0

Creation : November 17th 2004, Lille opera
Soprano : Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Baritone I : Lionel Peintre, Baritone II : Romain Bischoff, Actress : Johanne Saunier.
Ictus ensemble, conductor : Georges-Elie Octors
Stage director : Georges Aperghis
Images and video : Kurt D'Haeseleer/Filmfabriek
Stage design/Set : Peter Missotten/Filmfabriek
Musical Assistant (electronics) : Sébastien Roux/IRCAM.
Sound engineer : Alex Fostier.
Stage assistant : Emilie Morin

self-published

Opera based on texts choosen by Aperghis and Peter Szendy (Melville, Kafka, Hugo ...) - CD CYPRES 5621

B.W.V.

1973

17

For 6 singers (S.MzS.CT.T.2Bar) and
21 musicians :
2fl à bec.0.4(2clB).0-0.0.4.0, 2perc, pno, clv, org,
crd (0.0.1.1.4)

Creation : 19.10.1973, Paris - Festival d’Automne,
Ensemble Polyphonique de l’O.R.T.F, Charles Ravier (cond.)

Salabert 4710

 

Babil

1996

15

For clarinet and 15 musicians :
1(pic).1.1.1(cbn)-1.1.1.1, pno, marimba, str (1.1.1.1.1)

Creation : Armand Angster (cl), Ensemble Ars Nova,
Philippe Nahon (cond)

Durand 1228

 

Bloody Luna

2007

16

For cello solo and ensemble :
1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.0 - perc. - pno - strings (1.1.1.1.1)

Creation : February 23rd 2007 Casa da Musica Porto, by Remix ensemble with Sonia Wieder-Atherton, conductor Diego Masson

Durand 6494

 

Breaths

2019

10

Solo piano

Créé le 20 octobre 2019 au festival Transit à Louvain par Nicolas Hodges

 

Durand

 

Champ–Contrechamp

2010

15

1.0.1.1.1 — 1.1.1.0 — 2 perc. - pno - hpe — strings (1.1.1.1.1)

Creation : London Sinfonietta and Nicolas Hodges / Conductor, David Atherton - Cadogan Hall in London – BBC Proms

Durand 6591

For piano & ensemble

Cinq Calme-plats

1992

10

For female voice

Creation : 1995, Nanterre theater, Martine Viard (S)

D. & F. 01487200

 

Cinq couplets

1988

20

For soprano and clarinet doublebass

Creation : 20.03.1989, Paris, Radio-France,
Françoise Kübler (S), Armand Angster (clCB)

SLB 00572500

CD Universal/Accord - ensemble Accroche Note

Cinq petits moments brefs

1988

15

For harpsichord

Creation : 28.04.1989, Radio-France - Paris by Elisabeth Chojnacka

SLB 00253200

CD Adda 581224 Elisabeth Chojnacka

Cinq pièces pour violoncelle et percussion

1994

14

For percussions and cello

Creation : 28.04.1994, Radio France- Paris,Elena Andreyev (cello), Françoise Rivalland (perc.)

D. & F. 01484600

CD Zig-Zag Territoires n° 3760009290174/S:i.c. ensemble

Commentaires

1996

1997

75

For 2 actors, Baritone, Cello, Percussions, Piano and Viola

Creation : juillet 1996, Avignon festival. Jos Houben, Christophe Huysman (actors), Elena Andreyev (Vlc), Françoise Rivalland (Perc), Geneviève Strosser (Vla), Vincent Leterme (Pno), Georges Aperghis (stage direction), Daniel Lévy (lightings), Yvette Rotscheid (stage design and costumes)

self-published

Texts by Philippe Minyana.

Concerto for accordion

2015

30

For accordion solo and large orchestra

4.4.4.4 — 6.4.4.1 — timb - 3 perc - orgue/harmonium - hpe — [strings : divisi]

Premiere : February 26th 2016, Munich/Musica Viva Concert Series, by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with Teodoro Anzelotti (accordion) and Emilio Pomarico (conductor)

Editions Durand DF 16272

 

Concerto grosso

1971

1972

50

For 3 singers (MzS.Bar.B), actress,
19 musicians and magnetic tape :
0.0.3.2 - 0.0.3.1, 4 perc, pno, crd (0.0.0.4.1)

Creation : 9.05.1972, Paris, Amélia Salvetti (S),
Michel Jarry (bar), Mario Haniotis (B), Edith Scob (actress), Ensemble de Musique Contemporaine de Paris

Amphion 86

 

Contretemps

2005

2006

21

For soprano and ensemble :
2.1.2.1 - saxophone - 1.1.1. - accordion, 2 pianos, 2 percussions - 2.2.2.1

Creation August 29th 2006 in Salzburg by Klangforum Wien with Donatienne Michel-Dansac, conductor Hans Zender - Commissionned by Salzburg festival

Durand 6464

CD KAIROS 0013222 KAI, Klangforum Wien, Emilio Pomarico

Conversatio X

1985

2017

 

Prepared piano and speaking

Premiered by Reto Staub on JULY 25TH 2010, ORANGERIE.
FERIENKURSE DARMSTADT

self-published

 

CD NEOS 11630

 

 

Crosswind

1997

13

For viola and saxophone quartet

Creation : 15.04.1998, Witten (Germany), Geneviève
Strosser (vla), Xasax Quartet

D. & F. 1229 (location)

CD Kairos 0012942KAI/Xasax and Geneviève Strosser

Damespiel

2011

8

For clarinet solo

Creation October 1st 2012, studio ensemble musikFabrik Köln by Carl Rosman

self-published

 

Dans le Mur

2007

19

For piano and electronics

Creation March 27th 2008 Orsay Museum - Paris by Nicolas Hodges, piano. Musical assistant of Georges Aperghis : Sébastien Roux

self-published

CD Wittener Tage Für Neue Kammermusik WDR3 2009, Nicolas Hodges

Dark Side (French and German version)

2003

30

For mezzo-soprano and 18 musicians :
2.2(cor ang).2.2-2.1.0.1, 3 perc, pno, crd (2.1.2.2.1)

Creation : 15.03.2004, Athens, Marianne
Pousseur (MzS), Ensemble Intercontemporain, Jonathan Nott (cond.)

Durand 6332 / Durand 6535

Texts inspired by “l’Orestie” - Eschyle, translation François Regnault

De la nature de l’eau

1974

17

For 6 singers (S.3MzS.2Bar), 2 actors (a Man and a Woman), 1 perc sound system, Pno

Creation : 30.06.1974, La Rochelle, Rencontres
Internationales d’Art Contemporain. Ensemble
Polyphonique de France, Daniel Chabrun (Cond.)

Salabert 5027

 

De la nature de la gravité

1979-1980

30

For 7 singers, 2 actors, Tpt and Perc.

Creation : 1976, Banff (Canada)

Salabert 5028

Text by Georges Aperghis inspired by Léonard de Vinci

Déclamations

1990

18

For Baritone, contrabass clarinet and orchestra (78 musicians) :
4(2pic).4.4(clB, clCB).4(cbn)-5.3.3.1-timb, 3perc., strings
(14.11.9.7.5)

Creation : 15.09.1990, Strasbourg - Musica Festival,
Spiros Sakkas (Bar), Armand Angster (cl), Rundfunk
Sinfonieorchester Saabrücken, Grzegorz Nowak (cond.)

D. & F. 1230

 

Der Lauf des Lebens

2018

60

23 musicians ad 6 singers

Création : 2 septembre 2020, Berliner Philharmonie, Kammermusiksaal par les Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart et l'Ensemble Klangforum Wien

 

Commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte, funded by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

Durand

 

Die Hamletmaschine-oratorio

1999-2000

60

For 5 soloist (S, 2Bar, vla, perc), mixt choir
(9S.9.A.9T.9B) and 16 musicians :
1.1.2.0-2.1.1.1, perc, pno (org élec), crd (1.0.1.2.1)


Creation : 30.09.2000, Strasbourg - Festival Musica,
Françoise Kubler (S), Vincent Le texier and Jean-Marc
Salzmann (Bar), Geneviève Strosser (vla), Jean-Pierre
Drouet (perc), SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Ensemble
Ictus, Georges-Elie Octors (cond.)

Durand 2996

Text by Heiner Müller, translation Jean Jourdheuil.
CD Cyprès CYP5607

Die Wände haben Ohren

1972

16

For an orchestra of 72 musicians :
4(pic).3.3.3-4.3.3.1, 2 perc, crd (14.11.9.7.5)

Creation : 26.11.1972, “Rencontres
Internationales de Musique Contemporaine” in Metz - Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Hans Zender (cond.)

Salabert 3662

 

Dix Pièces pour quatuor à cordes

1986

33

String Quartet

Creation : 16.09.1986, Festival Musica - Strasbourg, Arditti Quartet

EAS 17803

 

En un tournemain

1987

2

For viola

Creation : 7.07.1987, Montpellier festival

SLB 00248600

 

Entre chien et loup

1999

60

For Soprano, actor and 5 musicians :
Fl, Perc, Pno, viola, Cello

Creation : 23.11.2002, Nancy, National Opera, Donatienne Michel-Dansac (S), Lionel Peintre (Bar), Ensemble S:ic

Durand 6411/ Durand 1244 (German version)

Zwielicht, French version
Music theatre performance. Texts from Paul Klee, Goethe and Franz Kafka

Études d'harmoniques

1976

4

For 2 violins and cello

Creation : 1976, Boulogne music school, chamber music competition

SLB 00186000

 

Etudes pour orchestre

2012 > 2015

19

Strings 14/12/10/8/6
4.4.4.4-6.4.4.1-2 timpani-2 perc-hp-pno

Etudes 1-4
Creation : October 4th 2013, Köln Philharmony, Sinfonieorchester Köln with Emilio Pomarico
Commission by the Westdeutschen Runfunks and Musica, Strasbourg.

Etude 5-6
Creation : March 20th, 2015, musica viva, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, Emilio Pomarico

Durand 6681

 

Façade-trio

1998

15

For 2 bass clarinets and percussion

Creation : 29.09.1999, Strasbourg - Musica festival,
Auditorium FR3-Alsace, Jean-Marc Foltz, Sylvie Brucker,
Guy Frisch

D. & F. 01521500

 

Faux mouvement

1995

9

String trio

Creation : February 1997, Paris at the “Théâtre du Renard”, André Pons-Valdès (vl), Gilles Deliège (vla), Elena Andreyev (vlc)

D. & F. 01497300

CD Zig-Zag Territoires n° 3760009290174/S:i.c ensemble

Fragments (Journal d’un opéra)

1977

30

For 9 solo voices (S.3MzS.T.2Bar.2B), 2 actors
(a Man and a Woman), Pno and 2 Vibes

Creation : 11.01.1978, Strasbourg, Théâtre
National, Atelier Lyrique du Rhin, Yves Prin (Cond.),
Pierre Barrat (Stage direction)

Salabert 5063

Based on a text by Michel Deutsch

Fuzzy-Trio

2006

10

for violin, piano, percussion

Créé le 7 octobre 2008 à l'Opéra de Monaco par l'ensemble S:i.c, Jasmine Eudeline (vlon), Vincent Leterme (piano) et Françoise Rivalland (percussions)

 

Durand

 

Graffitis

1981

20

1 percussionist

Créé en 1981 à Paris au Théâtre National de Chaillot par Gaston Sylvestre

 

self-published

 

Happiness Daily

2009

25

Soloist : 1 soprano solo, 1 mezzo-soprano solo
ensemble : 2 flûte bass (also 2 flûte, 2 flûte piccolo), 2 bass clarinet (also 2 clarinets), 2 bassoon, 2 horn, trumpet [in A], trombone, timpani, 3 percussionists, 1 piano, violin, violin 2, 2 viola, 2 celli, doublebass

Commission : Intercontemporain Ensemble

Creation : April 28th 2009, Cité de la musique - Paris, Marianne Pousseur and Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Intercontemporain ensemble, conductor Ludovic Morlot.

Durand 6548

soprano, mezzo-soprano et ensemble

Happy End

2007

60

ensemble of 14 musicians, conductor and electronics, (including voices off), big screen with film.
Insrumentalist : fl, 2 cl, 3 perc, 2 keyboards, e-guit, 2 vi, 2 celli, doublebasse.

Creation December 7th 2007 Lille opera. Ictus Ensemble conducted G-E Octors, Sébastien Roux electronics, Alex Fostier sound engineer

self-published

Music by Georges Aperghis, Animated film by Hans Op de Beeck / Bruno Hardt / Klaas Verpoest.
Text by Charles Perrault “Hop o’ my thumb”

Heysel

2002

5

8 musicians :
1.1.2.1-1.1.1.0, 2perc, 2pnos, str (1.1.1.2.1)

Creation : mars 2003, Bruxelles, Ictus ensemble

Durand 5615

Music for a film directed by Thierry De Mey.

Histoire de loups

1976

135

8 principal solo voices, 4 baritones et
9 musicians :
1.0.2 (clB, clCB).0-0.0.0.0, 2 Perc, org elec (Pno, Cel,
Harm), str (0.0.0.2.1)

Creation : 26.07.1976, Avignon festival - Christian
Treguier (Serge, the wolf man), Michaela
Etcheverry (the mother), Laura Routet de Monvel (the sister), Georges Jollis (the father), Martine Viard (the grand-mother), Roger Leroy (the grand-father), Hélène Delavault (the nurse), Régine Fruchout (the English maid), the Analyst Quartet (Jacques Bona, Pierre Danais,
Christian Davesnes, René Massip), Pierre Barrat (the psychoanalyst), soloist of the “Atelier Lyrique du Rhin”
(Martine Bailly, Bernard Balet, Vincent Bauer, Jean-
Claude Celea, Jacques Di Donato, Renaud François,
Claude Lavoix, Michel Strauss), Yves Prin (cond)

Salabert 5040

Opera, libretto by Marie-Noëlle Rio after
Siegmund Freud

I. X.

2001

2002

4

For violin

Creation : 15.11.2001, Wien Modern festival - Konzerthaus by Hae-Sun Kang

D. & F. 01552800

 

Il gigante Golia

1975

10

For soprano and 16 musicians
1.2(eng.hn).2(clB).1-1.1.1.0, 2perc, pno, strings (1.0.1.1.1)

Creation : September 15th 1975, Venise Biennale by Elise Ross (sop) and the ensemble Anton Webern, Marcello Panni (cond)

Salabert 4499

 

In extremis

1998

15

For 8 musicians :
1.0.0.0-1.0.0.1, perc, pno, str. (0.0.1.1.1)

Creation : 4.02.1999, Conservatoire National
de Région - Poitiers, Ensemble Ars Nova, Philippe Nahon (cond)

Durand 1232

 

Jacques le Fataliste

1974

130

8 solo voices (4 S.4 Bar), mixt choir (4 S.4 A .4 T.4 B)
and orchestra - 29 musicians :
5 (fl ut, 4 recorders). 2 (Eng Hn). 2 (clB).0-1.1.1.1, 4 perc, Cel, pno, régale, Hpsd, org, str (0.0.0.4.3)

Creation : 12.03.1974, Opera of Lyon, soloist, choir
and orchestra of Lyon opera house, Claire Gibault (cond), Edmond Tamiz (stage direction)

Durand 5069

Three acts opera - libretto by Henri Mary
after Diderot

Je vous dis que je suis mort

1978

45

For 7 solo voices (S.MzS.A.T.2Bar.B) and 12 musicians :
1(Picc, A.Fl).0.2(cor de basset, 2ClB).1(Cbsn)-0.0.2.0,
Harm (Hpsd, Pno, Cel), 2Perc, str (0.0.0.2.1)

Creation : 14.03.1979, Ensemble InterContemporain,
Jacques Mercier (cond)

Salabert 5041

Opera, libretto by François Regnault

Jeu à quatre

5

Quartet of alto saxophons

Alphonse Leduc editions, AL 30425 (Vent de sax collection)

pedagogical method for young musicians

Kryptogramma

1970

20

For 6 percussions

Creation : 12.07.1972, Festival du Marais - Paris, Les Percussions de Strasbourg

Pocket score in sale DA 00026400
Amphion 88 (separated scores on rental)

 

L’Adieu

1993

12

For Contralto and big orchestra
4(2pic).4.4(clB).4(2cbn)-4.4.4.1, timb, 5 perc, pno, 2hp,
strings

Creation : 28.04.1994, Paris, Radio France, Madeleine
Jaubert (CA), Radio-France Philharmonic orchestra,
Mark Foster (cond)

Durand 1227

 

L’Écharpe rouge

1984

160

For 5 main singers, 4 female voices, 3 Perc, 2 Pno

Creation : 15.07.1984, Avignon Festival
Annick Minck (Cond), Antoine Vitez (Stage direction)

Salabert 5062

Opera, libretto by Alain Badiou

L’iliade, L’odyssée

2007

3

For clarinet and violin

Creation : September 25th 2008, WMP Concert Hall, Manhattan - New York by the New York Miniaturist ensemble

self-published

2 miniatures

La Fable des continents

1990

For bass voice and large orchestra

music not available

Music composed for a film by Hugo Santiago

La Nuit en tête

2000

14

For soprano and sextet
fl, cl, vl, vlc, perc, pno, sop

Creation : 16.12.2000, Paris-Radio-France,
Festival Présences, Donatienne Michel-Dansac (S),
Ensemble Sic

Durand 5240

CD Zig-Zag Territoires n°3760009290174
Ensemble S:i.c

La Tragique histoire du nécromancien Hiéronimo
et de son miroir

1971

30

For puppets, actress, Mezzo-Soprano, Lute (or guitar), Cello and magnetic tape

Creation : 2.08.1971, Avignon festival
Arlette Bonnard (actress), Amélia Salvetti (S), Guy Robert (lute), Alain Meunier (vlc)

A 91

 

Le Corps à corps

1978

6

For 1 percussionist

Creation : 6.08.1979, “la Sainte-Baume” festival by Jean-Pierre Drouet

self-published

 

Le Petit chaperon rouge, “Rotkäppchen” (French version but also English version

2001

40

For 6 musicians :
0.0.2(2clB).0-0.0.0.0, saxS, 2pno, crd (1.0.0.0.0)

Creation : le 7.04.2001, Köln Philharmonie, Ensemble Reflex

Durand 5602/Durand 6436 (English version)

Text by Charles Perrault/German, French and English version
DVD ARTE France, Idéale Audience, Les Films du Présent. Distribution EuroArts Music International, www.euroarts.com

Le Reste du temps

2003

15

For cello, cymbalum and ensemble :
0.0.2.1-1.0.0.0, perc, pno, str (1.0.1.1.0)

Creation : le 10.05.2003, Théâtre de la Criée of Marseille,
Sonia Wieder-Atherton (vlc), Françoise Rivalland
(cymbalum), NEM ensemble conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt

Durand 5395

 

Le Rire physiologique

1982

8

For baritone and piano

Creation : Paris, Péniche-opéra, Pierre Danais (Bar),
Jean-Claude Pennetier (pno)

SLB 00214100

On a text by Raymond Devos

Les 7 crimes de l’amour

1979

12

For voice, clarinet and percussion

Creation (first projection) : 1979, Paris, Ircam, Martine Viard (S), Michel Portal (cl), Jean-Pierre Drouet (perc)

self-published

Composition for a film by Michel Fano

Le Soldat inconnu

2013

27

For barytone and ensemble

Création : 27 avril 2014, Portugal, Porto, Casa da Musica, par Lionel Peintre, baryton ; Remix Ensemble ; Jonathan Stockhammer, direction.

 

Durand

After Franz Kafka and other sources

Les Boulingrin

2010

70

Félicie (soprano), Mme Boulingrin (mezzo-soprano), Des Rillettes (baritone), M. Boulingrin (baritone)
Ensemble : bass flute (also flute in A), 2 bass clarinets , saxophone ténor, horn, percussions, piano, accodion, 2 celli.

Creation : May 12th 2010 – Opera comique - Paris Donatienne Michel-Dansac (Félicie), Doris Lamprecht (Mme Boulingrin), Lionel Peintre (Des Rillettes), Jean-Sébastien Bou, (M. Boulingrin), Ensemble Klangforum Wien, Jean Deroyer (cond.), La Muse en Circuit

Durand

opera buffa for ensemble and 4 singers
Libretto by Georges Aperghis based on Les Boulingrin by Georges Courteline

Les Guetteurs de son

1981

17

For 3 percussionists

Creation : June 1981, Saint-Denis festival, Théâtre
Gérard Philipe, Trio Le Cercle (Jean-Pierre Drouet,Gaston Sylvestre and Willy Coquillat)

self-published

 

Les Lauriers sont coupés

1975

20

For Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and 5 musicians :
1.1(cor ang).0.1-0.0.1.0, crd (0.0.1.0.0)

Creation : 27.07.1975, Avignon festival, Véronique
Dietschy (S), Amelia Salvetti (MzS), Ensemble
Polyphonique de Paris, Charles Ravier (cond.)

Salabert 4711

 

Les moments présents

2016

8

Piano solo

Créé le 15 octobre 2016 au teatro Colon, Buenos Aires par Nicolas Hodges

 

self-published

 

Les secrets élémentaires

1998

16

For piano solo

Creation : 16.12.2000, Radio France - Paris by Vincent Leterme

D. & F. 01521300

CD NEOS 10912 - Nicolas Hodges

Liebestod

1981

1987

145

for 1 actress, 11 singers (4S.4MzS.Bar.2B) and
9 musicians :
0.0.2 (clpic, clB, clCB).0-0.0.0.0, 2 perc, pno (cel, synt),
crd (0.0.0.2.1)

Creation : 22.01.1982, Metz Opera, Atelier Lyrique
du Rhin et Musique Vivante, Yves Prin (cond.),
Pierre Barrat (director)

Salabert 5042

Text by Bettina von Arnim

Ligne de fissure

2008

7

For cymbalum solo

Creation : Juillet 18th 2008, Church of Saint Pallais;, Saintes festival, Françoise Rivalland

self-published

 

Lost connections

2016

8

Ensemble (12 musicians)

Création le 6 mai 2019 à Cologne dans le cadre du festival Acht Brücken par le Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam dirigé par Ed Spanjaard

Commande de ACHT BRÜCKEN / Musik für Köln

 

Durand

 

Luna Park

2011

60

For 4 performers :
Flute octobass, actress, percussionist, flute (also bass flute)

Creation : June 8th 2012, Manifeste festival, IRCAM-Paris.
Music and staging, Georges Aperghis
Set design, videos and lightings, Daniel Lévy
Texts, Georges Aperghis and François Regnault
Electronics/IRCAM, Grégory Beller

With Eva Furrer, Johanne Saunier, Richard Dubelski, Michael Schmid

The score is not available

 

Machinations

2000

60

For 4 female voices, electronics and video

Creation : April 2000, Witten festival - Sylvie Levesque, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Sylvie Saccoun, Geneviève Strosser (S), Olivier Pasquet
(electronics), Georges Aperghis (stage direction), Daniel
Levy (stage design, video and lightings), Emily Loizeau
(stage assistant)

Durand 5246

Texts by François Regnault and Georges Aperghis
CD Universal-Accord-Una corda 472 916 2

Merry go round

2019

10

Solo accordion

Création le 9 février 2020, ECLAT Festival, Stuttgart, ; par Teodoro Anzelotti

Composition commissioned by Südwestrundfunk

 

Self-published

 

Migrants

2017

25

2 female voices and ensemble

Citations de Heart of Darkness de Joseph Conrad, textes de Georges Aperghis

Créé le 22 Mars 2018, Philharmonie de Berlin, Kammermusiksaal, Festival MaerzMusik, Ensemble Resonanz, Agata Zubel (S), Christina Daletska (MzS), Emilio Pomarico (dir.)

commande Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung pour l’Ensemble Resonanz

 

Durand

 

Monomanies

1991

10

For female voice

Creation : 21.02.1993, Paris-Radio-France,
Présences festival, Valérie Philippin (S)

D. & F. 01478500

7 songs on French poetry of the XVI century

Mouvement pour quintette

1975

13

For 5 musicians : cl, pno, vl, vla, vlc

Creation : 11.07.2003, Cluny festival, Dominique Clément (cl), Noëmi Schindler (vl), Garth Knox (vla), Christophe Roy (vlc), Alain Neveu (pno)

self-published

 

Obstinate

2017

7

for double bass

Créé le 2 mai 2018, festival Acht Brücken Köln par Florentin Ginot

Commande du festival ACHT BRUCKEN Musik - Cologne, aidé par la Fondation pour la Musique Ernst von Siemens

 

self-published

 

Passwords

2016

10

for 6 singers

Créé le 3 novembre 2017, festival G((o))ng de Copenhague par les Neue Vocalsolisten.

Commande Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart pour les Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

 

Durand

 

P.S.

2010

7

For saxophone soprano solo

Creation : October 16th 2010 - Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg by Pierre-Stéphane Meugé

self-published

 

Pandaemonium

1973

95

For 8 voices (4 S.4 Bar), 4 actors, 7 musicians :
0.0.2 (clB).0-0.0.0.0, 2 perc, pno (Hpsd, org elec),
str (0.0.0.1.1)

Creation : 20.07.1973, Avignon festival, Irène
Jarsky, Bernadette Val, Martine Viard, Nicole
Oxombre (S), Luis Masson, Jean Boulay, Bernard
Mazo, Paul Guigue (Bar), Edith Scob, Claire Moget,
Marie-Thérèse Cahn, Marcel Bozonnet (actors),
Renaud François (fl), Jacques Di Donato (cl), Jacques
Nouredine (cl), Alain Meunier (vlc), Claude Lavoix (organ,
piano, harpsichord), Jean-François Jenny Clark (cb), Bernard
Balet (perc), Vincent Bauer (perc), Daniel Chabrun (cond)

Durand 5043

Libretto by Georges Aperghis

Parenthèses

1977

17

For percussion solo and 16 musicians :
2.0.2.1-1.1.1.0, 2perc, pno, hp, str (1.0.1.1.1)

Creation : 22.05.1977, Paris, Ensemble Musique
Vivante, Diego Masson (cond)

Salabert 3446

 

Parlando

2007

17

Doublebass solo

Creation : 2/11/2009, Wien Modern festival by Uli Fussenegger (first half)
July 2010 in Darmstadt, whole version for the fisrt time

self-published

CD KAIROS 013222KAI, Klangforum Wien and Emilio Pomarico

Paysage sous surveillance

2002

70

For 2 actors, 2cl, 2vlc, 2synt

Creation : le 25.10.2002, Bruxels, Kaaitheater, Johanne
Saunier and Jos Houben (actors), Peter Missotten
(stage design and lightings), Kurt d’Haeseleer (video),
Ensemble ICTUS, Georges Elie Octors (cond.)

The score is not available

Text by Heiner Müller

Petrrohl (1st movement of Wölfli Kantata)

2001

12

For 6 voix soloists
2 Soprano, Counter Tenor, Tenor, Baritone and Bass

Creation : le 20.11.2002, Wien Modern festival,
Neuer Saal, Neue Vokalsolisten of Stuttgart

Durand 5408

CD Cyprès CYP5625/neue vocalsolisten

Piano project

Piano solo

Universal Edition, UE 33662

pedagogical method for yound musicians; pieces of Aperghis, Boulez, Eötvos, Fedele, Halffter, Jarrell, Kurtag, Luis de Pablo and Sciarrino

Pièce pour deux violoncelles

1970

12

For 2 celli

Creation : 1974, La Rochelle - “Rencontres Internationales d'Art Contemporain” by Alain Meunier and Roland Pidoux

self-published

 

Pièce pour douze

1991

13

For 12 musicians :
0.2.1.2-2.0.0.1, 2perc, pno, str (0.0.0.0.1)

Creation : 11.04.1991, Georges Pompidou Center - Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Peter Eötvös (cond)

Durand 1234

 

Print music

2002

15

For piano solo

Creation : 2002, Musica festival - Strasbourg by Vincent Leterme

D. & F. 01552900

CD NEOS 10912, Nicolas Hodges

Profils

1998

15

For cello and zarb

Creation : 2001, Aix-en-Provence festival, by Sonia Wieder-Atherton (vlc) and Françoise Rivalland (zarb)

D. & F. 01521400

CD “En sonate” BMG France/RCA Red Seal/Françoise Rivalland and Sonia Wieder-Atherton

Pubs / Reklamen

2002

2015

20

For Soprano solo

Pub 1 & 2
Premiere : November 2000, Cité de la musique, Paris - Valérie Philippin

*

Pubs-Reklamen 1>7 Premiere : May 30, 2016, Festival Für Neues Musiktheater (Munich) -Donatienne Michel-Dansac

self-published

 

Puzzles

1971

16

For 12 instrumentalists :
2(2pic).0.2.1-1.2.1.1, 2 perc

Creation : 26.09.1971, Athens

A 90

 

Quai n° 1

1978

19

For an actress, 7 solo singers (2S.2MzS.3Bar), 2 Perc, Pno elec

Creation : 30.01.1979, Colmar, Atelier Lyrique du Rhin, Pierre Barrat (Stage direction)

Salabert 5029

Based on a text by Marie-Noël Rio - Paul Gilson Prize

Quartet Movement

2008

2009

7

String Quartet

Creation April 26th 2009, Arditti String Quartet - Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik

self-published

 

Quatre Pièces fébriles

1995

7

For marimba and piano

Creation : 1996, Théâtre du Renard - Paris, by Françoise
Rivalland (marimba) and Vincent Leterme (pno)

D. & F. 01483000

CD “Simulacres” Universal/Accord - Accroche Note ensemble

Quatre Récitations pour violoncelle

1980

17

For cello

Creation : 1.07.1980, La Rochelle - Rencontres
Internationales d'Art Contemporain by Alain Meunier

SLB 00198500

 

Rasch

2001

6

For violin and viola
Or
For saxophone and viola
Or
For soprano and viola

Creation : 15.11.2001 Wien Modern festival (Konzerthaus) by Irvine Arditti (vl) and Geneviève Strosser (vla)

self-published

CD Kairos 0012942KAI/ Xasax and Geneviève Strosser

Récitatif de concours

1975

9

For 5 musicians : voice, fl, cl, vlc, pno

Creation : 1975, La Rochelle, Concours de chant des
Rencontres Internationales d’Art Contemporain

Salabert 4457

 

Récitations (1978)

1978

40

For female voice

Creation : 2.08.1982, Avignon festival, Martine
Viard (S), Michel Rostain (stage director)

SLB 00191200
SLB 00583800 manuscript and published music

CD Col Legno, Wien Modern Edition#1 WWE 1CD 20270

Requiem furtif

1998

7

For violin and clave (hyoshigi)

Creation : March 1998, Théâtre de l'Aquarium - Paris,
Ensemble S:ic concert/Anne Mercier (vl) and Françoise Rivalland (claves)

D. & F. 01521200

CD Zig-Zag Territoires n° 3760009290174/S:i.c. ensemble

Retrouvailles

2013

8

Two percussions

Premiere : Witten festival, 26 avril 2013 by Christian Dierstein and Richard Dubelski   

self-published

 

Ritournelles

1992

12

For 2 Barytones and 9 musicians :
pic, clB, timb, pno, mand, guit, hp, vlc, cb

Creation : 16.05.1992, Mönchengladbach (de), Nieuw
Ensemble d’Amsterdam, Ed Spanjaard (cond)

Durand 1236

 

Rondo

1994

8

For soprano and mezzo-soprano

Creation : 1996, Banff (Canada), Patricia O'Callaghan and Lori Classen

D. & F. 10481500

 

Ruinen

1994

10

For trombone (or tuba)

Creation : 1994, Berlin - Berliner Festspiele by Vinko Globokar

D. & F. 01481700

 

Scherzo

2017

7

Piano solo

Créé le 1er octobre 2019, Biennale de Venise par Mairangela Vacatello

 

self-published

 

Seesaw

2008

12

2.0.2.0.1 - 0.0.0.0 - 2 pnos - strings (1.1.2.2.1)

Creation : Klangforum Wien / Conductor Sylvain Cambreling February 2nd 2010, Musikgebouw Amsterdam

Durand 6540

CD KAIROS 0013222KAI, Klangforum Wien and Emilio Pomarico

Sextuor - L’Origine des espèces

1992

60

For 5 female voices and cello

Creation : 3.05.1993, Nanterre, Théâtre des
Amandiers, ATEM. Emmanuelle Zoll, Donatienne Michel-
Danzac and Françoise Degeorges (S), Valérie Joly (MzS), Frédérique Wolf-Michaux (A), Eléna Andreyev (Vlc), Andrea Cohen (vocal coach), Georges Aperghis (stage direction), Daniel Lévy (set design and lightings)

Durand 5264

Texts by François Regnault and Georges Aperghis (inspired by Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould, Encyclopedia of Nature directed by Jacques Brosse and the no 173 “Science et vie” (French scientific review)
CD MFA216004

Shot in the Dark

 

2012

17

For soprano and ensemble

Création : 26 mai 2012, New York, Columbia University, Miller Theater, par Tony Arnold, soprano ; Ice Ensemble ; Ludovic Morlot, direction.

Durand

 

Signaux

1978

11

For 4 instruments of a same timbre and same range

Creation : 26.09.1985, Festival Musica - Strasbourg Ensemble Accroche-Note

Salabert 3222

 

Simata

1971

20

For prepared piano or harpsichord

Creation : 1971, Paris by Christian Ivaldi

A 00026300

Disc NEOS B002N238O - Nicoalas Hodges

Simulacre I

1991

10

For soprano, clarinet doublebass and percussion

Creation : juin 1989, Saint-Denis, Festival, Ensemble
Accroche-Note

D. & F. 01475400

CD Universal/Accord - ensemble Accroche Note

Simulacre II

1994

15

For soprano, bass clarinet, percussion and marimba

Creation : 1995, Geneva, Ensemble Accroche-note

D. & F. 01475500

CD Universal/Accord - ensemble Accroche Note

Simulacre III

1994

15

For soprano, 2 clarinets and marimba
(or for soprano, clarinet, viola and marimba)

Creation : 15.03.1996, Liège, Ars Musica, festival
Ensemble Accroche-Note

D. & F. 01481800 / 01481801 (separated scores)

CD Universal/Accord - ensemble Accroche Note

Simulacre IV

1995

8

For bass clarinet

Creation : 1996, Strasbourg - Musica festival by Armand Angster

D. & F. 01497400

CD Simulacres Accord-Universal ACRD4761635, Accroche Note ensemble

Situations

2012

2013

65

For 23 soloist
2fl, Ob, 2Cl, Sax., Bsn (also Kontraforte), Hn, Tpt, Trb, 3vl, vla, 2vlc, Db, Hp, 2pnos (also Harmonium and Celesta), Acc, 2perc.

Creation : October 20th 2013 Donaueschinger Musiktage, Klangforum Wien ensemble with Emilio Pomarico, Philipp Harnoncourt - Lightings.

Kompositionsauftrag von Dieter und Gertraud Bogner, des SWR sowie Commande de l’Etat (France)

Durand 6674

 

Six Tourbillons

1989

12

For female voice

Creation : 16.09.1990, Musica festival in Strasbourg
Martine Viard (S)

SLB 00575400

 

Solo

1983

For an actress

To Edith Scob, actress
Staging : Edith Scob and Michael Lonsdale
Creation : July 19th 1983 Avignon festival

Not published. Contact us direclty please.

 

Solo

2013

20

For double bass clarinet

Premiere : August 6th 2014 during the summercourse of the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik - Darmstadt. Ernesto Molinari

self-published. On the webite from AUG 2015

 

Sonate pour violoncelle

1994

12

Cello

Creation : 1996, Copenhague, Concert S:i.c ensemble by Elena Andreyev

D. & F. 01481600

 

Strasbourg instantanées

1998

1999

For several formations (piano, voix, violin, clarinet, string quartet, saxophones quartet, cymbalum, organ, 10 instruments, trio, tuba, timpani, instrumental ensemble)

Creation : 1999 in Strasbourg - Music school

Editions du Conservatoire de Strasbourg

39 educational pieces commissioned and published by the Strasbourg conservatory

Teeter-Totter

2007

14

2fl, 2 cl, sax, cor, 2 pianos, 2 perc, 2 vcl, 1 Cb

Creation : October 18th 2008, Donaueschingen festival Klangforum Wien conducted by Emilio Pomarico

Durand 6536

CD KAIROS 0013222KAI Klangforum Wien and Emilio Pomarico/ NEOS 10942 Donaueschinger Musiktage Vol.2

The messenger

2019

10

Zarb solo

Création le 20.09.2020 Cologne Philharmonic Hall, performed by Vanessa Porter

Commissioned by Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik), Festspielhaus Baden-Baden und European Concert Hall Organisation in the framework of ECHO Rising Stars

 

self-published

 

The Only Line

2008

8

Version I : Violin solo lightly amplified
Version II : Violin and electronics

Creation Version I : July 7th 2008 - Staatsoper München by Hae-Sun Kang
Creation Version II : June 17th 2009, Orsay Museum - Paris, Hae-Sun Kang violin and Sébatien Roux electronics

self-published

 

Tingel Tangel

1990

35

For soprano, cymbalum and accordion

Creation : avril 1991, Toulouse, Garonne theater,
Valérie Philippin (S), Frédéric Daverio (accordion),
Françoise Rivalland (cymbalum)

D. & F. 01472600

CD Vand’œuvre Réf. 0426/Distribution Muséa, Metamkine les Allumés du jazz, Improjazz

Totem

1997

15

For 8 celli

Creation : 11.05.1998, Rencontres Internationales d'ensembles de violoncelles - Beauvais, Jacques Bernaert (cond)

Durand 1241

 

Triangle carré

1989

20

For string quartet and 3 percussionist

Creation : 20.10.1989, Automn festival - Paris,
Arditti Quatuor and trio Le Cercle

Salabert 3447

 

Trio

2012

13 mn

For piano, violin and cello

Creation : November 5th 2012 by the Trio Arbos - Music auditorium - National Museum of the Queen Sofia - Madrid

self-published

 

Trio

1996

11

For Clarinet, cello and piano

Creation : 1998, Paris - Radio-France, Accroche-Note ensemble

D. & F. 01497500

CD “Simulacres” Universal/Accord - Accroche Note ensemble

Trio Funambule

2015

14

for saxophone, piano and percussion

Créé le 6 février 2015, ECLAT Festival - Stuttgart par le Trio Accanto - Nicolas Hodges (pno), Marcus Weiss (sax) et Christian Dierstein (perc)

Commande de la SWR et du Trio Accanto (avec le soutien de la Fondation pour la musique Ernst von Siemens)

Auto-édition/CD WERGO 7358 2

 

self-published

 

Triple

2010

6

For flute, clarinet and trumpet

Creation : February 5th 2010 during the ensemble Modern academy in Francfort

self-published

 

Tristes tropiques, Op. 106

1990

1995

90

For 12 singers (6S.CT.2T.5Bar.BarB.4B), mixt choir
(app. 40 choristers) and large orchestra :
2(Pic).2.2(ClB).2(Cbn)-2.2.2.1, Timp, 2 Perc, 2 Pno,
str (8.6.6.5.3)

Creation : 29.09.1996, Strasbourg, Musica Festival in the Opéra du Rhin
Choir and Orchestra of the Opera
Chin Lien wu (Cond.choir), Bernard Kontardsky (Cond.), Yannis Kokkos (set and stage direction)

Durand 1243

Three acts opera - libretto by Catherine Clément based on the novel by Claude Levi-Strauss

Trois Pièces

1986

2008

String quartet

Creation : Wien Modern, October 28th by Arditti Quartet

Please contact Emilie Morin (page ‘contact’ of this website)

 

Tryptique - Compagnie - part II

1982

15

For harp and a percussionist

Creation : 23.11.1982, Metz - Rencontres
Internationales de Musique Contemporaine by Brigitte and Gaston Sylvestre

self-published

recording sold out (Transes Européennes)

Tryptique - Coup de foudre (Part I)

1982

13

For 1 percussionist

Creation : 23.11.1982, Metz “Rencontres
Internationales de Musique Contemporaine” by Gaston Sylvestre

self-published

recording sold out (Transes Européennes)

Tryptique - Fidélité (Part III)

1982

16

For harp

Creation : 25.07.1983, Avignon festival by Brigitte Sylvestre

self-published

recording sold out (Transes Européennes)

Uhrwerk

2012

10

For viola solo

Creation : June 12th 2014 in the Gennevilliers theater by Geneviève Strosser

self-published

 

Variations pour quatorze instruments

1973

14

For 14 musicians :
1.1.1.1-1.0.0.0, perc, hp, pno, gt, str (1.1.1.1.1)

Creation : 1973, Pupitre 14 - Amiens,
Edmond Rosenfeld (cond.)

Salabert 3448

 

Vesper

1971

30

For 7 voices (2S.MzS.CT.2T.B) and 22 musicians :
1.1.4.0-1.0.4.0, timb, 2perc, clav, org élec,
crd (0.0.1.1.4)

Creation : 16.11.1971, Bordeaux, Sigma, Ensemble
Polyphonique of the ORTF

A 92

Oratorio by George Frederik Händel
I. Quid memoriam singula - II. Black and white ballad -
II bis. Récitatif “La même phrase” - III. Interlude blanc -
IV. Récitatif “La descente continua” - V. Aria “Vouloir
tromper le ciel” - V bis. Choral

Volte-face

1997

9

Viola solo

Creation : 1998 in Genève by Genevieve Strosser

self-published

CD Kairos 12952

Von Zeit zu Zeit

1971

20

For 16 instrumentalists :
1.1.2.1-1.1.2.1, perc, org Hammond, str (1.0.1.1.1)

Creation : 14.09.1971, Athens

A 93

 

Wild Romance

2013

16

soprano, piano, marimba, perc2, strings 1.0.1.1.1

Creation October 23rd 2015 - Transit Festival, Leuven, Ensemble Talea, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, dir. James Baker

 

Editions Durand

 

Wind Waves

2015

11

for oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, bassoon

Créé le 8 novembre 2018, November Music Festival - Den Bosch par le Calefax reed quintet

Commande du Calefax reed quintet

 

self-published

 

Wölfli-Kantata

2005

50

For mixt choir (10.9.9.8) and 6 soloists
Piece a capella freely inspired by the works of Adolf Wölfli

Creation : July 22nd 2006, Eclats festival in Stuttgart, by the Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart and the SWR vokalensemble of Suttgart.
Commissionned of the Südwestrundfunk of Stuttgart and Musica festival

Durand 6438

CD CYPRES CYP5625

Zeugen

2006

60

For voice, puppeteer/narrator, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, accordion, cimbalom, piano

Creation : September 21st 2007, WidmarHallen - Bern,
Stage Design:Georges Aperghis and Daniel Levy
Conductor : Zsolt Nagy
Video and Lightings : Daniel Levy

Voice : Salome Kammer
Puppeteer/Narrator : Christopher Widauer (Kabinetttheater Wien)
Alto Saxophone : Marcus Weiss
Bass Clarinet : Ernesto Molinari
Accordion :Teodoro Anzellotti
Cimbalom : Francoise Rivalland
Piano : Mathilde Hoursiangou

self-published

Texts by Robert Walser - First version with 7 Hand puppets reproductions by Paul Klee and videos

Zwielicht

1999

60

For Soprano, actor and 5 musicians :
Fl, Perc, Pno, viola, Cello

Creation : 15.07.1999, Munich, Marstall theater, Ensemble Recherche

D. & F. 15141

Texts from Paul Klee, Goethe and Franz Kafka

 

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