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Jean-Louis Florentz
orn1947
Died: 2004
Nationality: French
Born in 1947, Jean-Louis Florentz simultaneously carried out
both musical and university studies (natural sciences,
literaryArabic, ethno musicology). Mul tiple fiel d trips took him
to the French West Indies, Polynesia and Africa, notably Kenya,
wherehe undertook periodic studies of animal acoustics. In his
music Florentz draws inspiration as much from the French
symphonictradition stemming from Debussy as from an African-style
approach to music. The resulting richness of harmonic colouration
ismatched by a heightened sense of incantatory melody. Jean-Louis
Florentz was in residence at the Academy of France inRome and at
the Casa de Velzquez in Madrid. A winner of the Grand Prix de la
Ville de Paris, of the Grand Prix forSymphonic Music from the
SACEM, he was elected member of the Acadmie des Beaux-Arts
(Institut de France) in 1995. Hedied in 2004.
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