Editions Henry Lemoine

This work is the result of a project that was very nearly impossible, for it involved gathering together in a single narration, a form through which I had already passed, the schematised ideal of all...

The title Blue girl with red wagon alludes to a painting by the American Robert Guinan. It was on the occasion of an exhibition of this artist's work at the Villa Medici that I wrote this piece for a...

This work was composed for a documentary film made by Maurice Rabinovisz on Proust and music, A la recherche de la sonate de Vinteuil. The producer Guy Darbois had invited four composers, (Régis Campo...

The violin-cello duo has a mythical place in 20th century music, with some of the pieces devoted to it being absolute masterpieces (I'm thinking of Maurice Ravel's Sonata in particular). Yet, for a co...

After Stephane Mallarmé's death, a red cardboard envelope was found among his papers, containing 210 small sheets (12.5 x 7.5 cm), covered in writing made in a light, rapid hand in pencil, and today a...

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...