Alain Margoni

Alain Margoni (13 October 1934) is a French classical composer.

Life Born in Neuilly-Plaisance, Margoni studied harmony with Henri Challan, counterpoint and fugue with Noël Gallon, orchestral conducting with Louis Fourestier, musical analysis with Olivier Messiaen and Ondes Martenot with Maurice Martenot. at the Conservatoire de Paris. In the competition for the Prix de Rome in 1957 and 1958 he won a second prize each and in 1959 the Premier Grand Prix with the cantata Dans les Jardins d’Armide after Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered.

After the four-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, he worked for nine years at the Comédie-Française, first as factotum musical, later as musical director. He then held a chair in musical analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris. He also acted as a conferencier, conductor, improviser with the Ondes Martenot, pianist and music theorist and musical comedian, the latter with Jérôme Deschamps and Alain Germain.

For Germain he wrote the music for the play Un piano pour deux pianistes, in which he himself performed with Pascal Le Corre in 1987. In addition to some 150 film, television and dramatic music, Margoni composed a musical narrative about the discovery of America, an opera, an oratorio and numerous chamber music works.

Works Après une lecture de Goldoni, Fantasy in 18th century style for bass trombone, tuba or saxhorn and piano, 1964 Après une lecture d’Hoffmann, Improvisation for double bass and piano, 1967 Après une lecture de Dreiser for bassoon and piano, 1969 Quatre personnages de Calderon for guitar, 1972 Cadence et danses for alto saxophone and piano, 1974 Séquence pour un hymne à la nuit for cello and piano, 1979 Dialogue, détente et stretto for trumpet or cornet and piano, 1980 Trois eaux-fortes for viola and piano, 1982 Danse ancienne (chaconne) et danse moderne for two harps Le Petit livre de Gargantua for tenor trombone and piano in three volumes, 1982 Petit théâtre for oboe and piano, 1982 Elégie for trombone and piano, 1983 Sur un thème de John Bull for French horn and piano, Dix Études dans le style contemporain for clarinet, 1983 Les Caractères, Variations for oboe and piano, 1984 Variation et hommage for clarinet Pierrot ou les secrets de la nuit, Opera based on a libretto by Rémi Laureillard after Michel Tournier, 1990 Premier Quatuor de saxophones, 1991 L'Ile des Guanahanis, musical narration based on a libretto by Rémi Laureillard for one actor, choir and orchestra, 1992 Promenades romaines for alto saxophone and piano, 1993–95 L'Enfant des alpages, Oratorio for children's choir, instrumental ensemble and alpine horns, 1996 Dix Études dans le style contemporain for Saxophone, 1999 Sonate for baritone saxophone soundtrack to the three-part television film by Hervé Baslé, 2001 Quatre chants vénitiens for soprano, tenor saxophone and piano, 2001