Michel Bosc
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Michel Bosc is a classical composer born in Paris in 1963. With various influences, his music (more than 200 opus) has tackled registers as diverse as symphonic, chamber of vocal music, sacred music, theatre music and orchestrations.
He composed five symphonies (« Mosaïques », « Bernard Palissy », « Pascale », « Le Grand Meaulnes », « Loume »), about fifteen symphonic poems (including a cycle about forests « Forêts d’été », « Forêts d’automne », « Forêts d’hiver », « Forêts nocturnes » and « Forêts enneigées »), an opera “La Fuga” on a Spanish original libretto by Luis Eduardo Jimenez.
About sacred music, he composed two oratorios : « Le Testament de St Mexme », « La Nef ardente » ; a mass, and a requiem “Leçons de ténèbres”.
His vocal music allows of numerous melodies, a cycle on Francis Jammes’s texts: “Tristesses” (from his “Clairières dans le ciel” collection).
Instrumentally, he composed or for various formations : trio, string quartet, wind quintet, brass quintet, flute and harp, and especially for mandolin (« La Harpe invisible », «Le Tombeau de Gabriele Leone », « Le Vent sur le lac », « A l’ombre d’oliviers », « Duetto Monetta »).
His music, often qualified of “quintessentially French”, is hedonist ; and sometimes uses contemporary techniques (clusters, polytonality, atonality), but it remains fundamentally tonal.
Michel Bosc wrote some librettos of his melodies and cantatas, a collection of poems « Cathédrales» and a book about french baroque music « Musique baroque française, splendeurs et resurrection ».
