Bruno Mantovani

Commissioned by the Messiaen Festival in Meije for violinist Hae-Sun Kang and pianist Florent Boffard, to both of whom the work is dedicated, All'ungarese refers to the music of Bela Bartok, in partic...

Bruno Mantovani is one of the most important French composers of our time. While he is a master of orchestral writing, chamber music and opera, he has yet to write a melody for voice and piano. With A...

This is the second time that I have been asked to pay musical homage to Beethoven: following Riccardo Chailly's request, I incorporated the opening Bb from the Fourth Symphony into an orchestral piece...

Art d'écho (identical in French pronunciation to the term 'Art deco') was composed in July 1998 at the request of Charles Frey, the artistic director of the Orchestre Poitou-Charentes, to whom the wor...

What fascinates me in Schubert's lieder, more even than the unusually creative melodic lines, is the number of piano accompaniment patterns (or Formel in German). These repetitive elements often conve...

Time Stretch (on Gesualdo) takes as its starting point Gesualdo's S'io non miro non moro from Book 5 of the Madrigals. From this short piece for five voices I derived a harmonic tapestry of 130 chords...

By the greatest fluke, in 2007 the two principal European orchestral conducting competitions proposed that I write an original work, which would be a requirement for the candidates. Finding the coinci...