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Place of Birth: Argences, Normandy, France
About François Fayt
- François Fayt (born 1946) is a French composer.
- Born in Argences, he studied music at the Conservatory of Versailles and then the École Normale de Musique de Paris.
- He took advanced courses with Marcel Ciampi and Aldo Ciccolini. He studied composition with Eugene Kurtz, a professor at the University of Michigan and New York.
- In 1984, he met Marcel Maréchal, director of the National Theatre of Marseille.
- The meeting led to many commissions for incidental music, especially for the Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, and an opera, l'Arbre de ma (The May Tree), performed in 1993 in a staging by Pierre Constant, under the direction of Frédéric Chaslin. At the same time, he wrote symphonic works, lyrical music and chamber music.
- His string quartet, titled Ellison's Quatuor was established on 24 June 2004 at the Summer Horrues Festival of Music by the Brussels String Quartet. Jean-Marc Luisada and the Australian String Quartet commissioned his String Quintet with Piano for the millennium celebrations in Sydney.
- Svetlin Roussev, principal soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Luisada commissioned Epilogue a piece for violin and piano.
- In 2014 his opera Le Sang Noir, based on the novel of the same name was premiered in German (as Das Schwartze Blut) at Erfurt.Fayt has also composed sacred music, including a Requiem, a Gospel of John, and a Stabat Mater performed in July, 2009 at the Festival Saint Riquier'under the direction of Jean-Paul Penin.
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