Éveline Andréani

Éveline Plicque-Andréani, née Boudon (January 25, 1929 – October 16, 2018), was a French composer, musicologist and pedagogue, winner of the Prix de Rome for musical composition in 1950.

Biography

Éveline Plicque-Andréani, born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, was the daughter of Irène Plicque, a singing teacher, born on May 9, 1901, who on August 18, 1922 married Guy Boudon, a schoolteacher, born on May 5, 1892. She was the natural daughter of Marcel Samuel-Rousseau.

In December 1939, she was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire in music theory classes. Still at the Conservatoire, she joined Marcel Samuel-Rouseau's harmony class from 1945 to 1950, then Noël Gallon's fugue class from 1946 to 1949. with her cantata Bettina, a lyrical scene in one act on a text by Jacques Carol after Alfred de Musset. This award caused a scandal, arising from the small number of composers (among many non-musicians) on the jury, and also because, according to one report, the winner's natural father was on the jury.

This is also a unique case in the history of the Prix de Rome where awards were distributed to three successive generations.

Plicque-Andréani's grandfather, Samuel Alexandre Rousseau (1853–1904), was the winner of the second Premier Grand Prix de Rome for musical composition in 1878 and professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire from 1898 until his death in office in 1904.

From February 1951 to April 1954, Plicque-Andréani was a resident and some-time pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici. Unlike most of the winners of the Prix de Rome, she was never a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, but had a brilliant academic career.

Bettina, cantata for the Prix de Rome (1950) Six mélodies in four parts, envoi de Rome (1952) Suite symphonique, in three parts, envoi de Rome (1953) Oratorio, envoi de Rome (1954) Symphonie concertante, piano reduction (date uncertain) Pastelli Romani, suite for orchestra, envoi de Rome (date uncertain) Symphonie concertante (1961) (Score: Choudens, recording INA et Radio France) Le dormeur du Val, symphonic poem with choir Leçons de ténèbres Psaume LVI de David (choir, soloists and orchestra) Bunraku, for clavecin (1989) Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres, settings of texts of Armand Gatti (1990) Misa para el hombre nuevo, for choir, orchestra and african percussion instruments (1990) Missa defunctorum, Requiem inspired by sacred Corsican chants (1994) (Score and CD Mandala MAN 4912 Harmonia Mundi) These works have been performed, as the case may be, in Paris and in several cities in the Parisian suburbs, in Corsica (2 tours), in Venice, in Brazil, and in Japan.

Publications

Éveline Andréani, Antitraité d'harmonie, Paris, Ed. Christian Bourgois, 1979 with Michel Borne, Le Don Juan ou la liaison dangereuse, Paris, l'Harmattan, 1996 with Jean-Paul Olive, "La Tradition comme invention", Revue d'esthétique, no. 4, 1982 — Antitraité d'harmonie, Paris, Christian Bourgeois, 1979, reprint L'Harmattan, 2020 — Le Don Juan et les liaisons dangereuses, musique ou littérature, Paris, Montréal, L'Harmattan, 1985 — "Les rapports texte-musique ou les aventures du sens", in Analyse musicale, no. 9, Paris, October 1987.