Jean-Louis Florentz


Jean-Louis Florentz was a French composer.

Biography

Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Florentz was a student of Pierre Schaeffer and Olivier Messiaen. In 1978, he won the Lili Boulanger composition prize, followed by various prizes from the SACEM and the Institut de France. His incessant travels to Africa allowed him to study ethnomusicology and linguistic. He was a friend of Olivier Latry, organist of Notre-Dame.
He was a composer-in-residence at the Villa Médicis in Rome and at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid
He died from cancer in 2004 in Paris.
He had been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 1995.

Works

The Grand Prix d’orgue of the which has been awarded annually since 2002 to the best young hope among the organists, has been renamed or Grand prix d'orgue Jean-Louis Florentz.
He had been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 1995. Michaël Levinas succeeded him in 2009 and pronounced his praise under the Coupole on 15 June 2011

Discography

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