Brice Pauset

The Six Préludes were composed and immediately developed on the harpsichord during the summer of 1999. The unmeasured prelude, a French genre of the 17th and early 18th centuries, provides a new way o...

These Zwei Studien über Dornröschen (two etudes based on Sleeping Beauty) are intended to become part of a vast tableau for string quartet, two choirs and large orchestra that will last approximately...

The Trois Canons were written as a swift reaction to a sudden, unexpected bereavement. Metaphorically speaking the compositional problem concerned the distance to be found between a given structural r...

As indicated by the title, the basis of the piece was centred in the idea of irrigation, in the alchemical meaning of the term, that is, a multiplication of matter in both quantity and quality. The fo...

The Second String Quartet ('Das unglückselige Bewußtsein') borrows its title from Hegel. 'Unhappy knowledge' means that knowledge of the tension between the painful finiteness of Man and his idea of t...

The original aim was to compose two chaconnes, or rather a double chaconne, one as a variation of extremely directive discursive material, and the other as a circular development of clearly defined fi...

pour cor en fa et piano

De Prolatione, for solo percussion, is sub-titled 'canon', which could be taken to mean that the performer is faced with a certain number of independent musical lines - two, at the very least. This is...

La nef des fous was written over two days (26 and 27 March 1991) for reasons otherwise unconcerned with composition. I must say that I found the experience both interesting and particularly illuminati...