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Eugène Bozza
1905 - 1991
France
Eugène Bozza (04/04/1905 - 28/09/1991), a French composer (born in Nice) who was most famous for chamber music for winds. Among his most famous works include En Forêt for horn and piano and his work for saxophone. He was a brilliant student at the Paris Conservatoire, winning First Prizes for the violin (1924), conducting (1930), composition (1934), as well as the Grand Prix de Rome. He conducted the orchestra of the Opera-Comique until 1948; he then became Head of the Conservatoire in Valenciennes. His works include several operas, ballets, large-scale symphonic and choral works. But his worldwide reputation is derived mainly for his many chamber works, written for various instrumental formations with a preference for wind instruments. Bozza's works reveal melodic fluency, elgance of structure and a consistently sensitive concern for instrumental capabilities.
Requiem
This Requiem, written in 1950, is for three voices (soprano, tenor, bass).
Messe de requiem
This Messe de requiem, written in 1971, is for chorus and orchestra.
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