Name Yves Ramette | Role Composer | |
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Albums Yves Ramette: The Golden Galaxy Similar People Eric Himy, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Arthur Honegger | ||
Yves ramette 1921 2012 symphony n 6 manfred 1964
Yves Ramette (6 February 1921 – 2 June 2012) was a French post-romantic composer and organist.
Contents
- Yves ramette 1921 2012 symphony n 6 manfred 1964
- Yves ramette 1921 2012 psalm 116 salve regina ave maria christus cantata
- Biography
- Orchestral Works
- uvres vocales et chorales
- Chamber Music
- Organ Works
- Piano Works
- References
Yves ramette 1921 2012 psalm 116 salve regina ave maria christus cantata
Biography
Yves Ramette was born in 1921 in Bavay, France, where his father was the Director of a Professional Graduate School. From a very young age Ramette was attracted towards music. When he was seven years old he started learning musical notation as well as playing the violin and the piano. At age fourteen, while pursuing his secondary studies at the Lycée de Beauvais, he also learnt Harmony lessons. In Beauvais, he also studied the violin with Robert Duforestel.
Then he joined the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris to study Harmony with Jacques de la Presle, Counterpoint and Fugue with Simone Plé-Caussade, the piano with Lélia Gousseau and Lazare Lévy. He also studied conducting and orchestration with Eugène Bigot.
In parallel, he studied the Organ with Georges Jacob (organiste), the Composition with Arthur Honegger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris where he awarded First Prize in 1945. From 1947 to 1953 he taught the organ and Counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum de Paris.
In 1952, he was appointed as the “Maître de chapelle” and organ player at the St-Ferdinand-des-Ternes church in Paris. In 1953, together with Božidar Kantušer, Luc Ferrari and Pierre Migaux he founded Group 84. He created and directed the mixed choir “Voix Ardens” to promote the traditional, classical, romantic and modern choral music. This choir gave many concerts from 1968 to 1987. During his later years, Ramette mainly composed works for the organ and the piano, his favorite instruments. In 1997 he published a memory book “Grandeur et Décadence d’une tribune” (Éditions Odilon Media/Éditions du Sel).
Ramette output includes six symphonies, several chamber musics, choral and vocal works and many organ and piano pieces. Almost all his works have been edited on CD (Navona Records, USA). And the American concert pianist Eric Himy has performed and recorded many of Ramette's piano works.
Yves Ramette died in Prades in June 2012, aged ninety-one.