Born in Transylvania on January 2, 1944, Péter Eötvös enjoys a varied career as composer, conductor, and teacher. His music, performed by orchestras and festivals the world over, includes—in addition to some 90 major instrumental and vocal works—twelve operas (and two chamber operas) to date, including Three Sisters (1996-1997), Love and Other Demons (2007), Paradise Reloaded (Lilith) (2012/13), Der goldene Drache/Golden Dragon (2013/14), Sleepless (2020) and the latest to be premiered in 2023: Valuska. Since his earliest plays and the soundtracks of his youth, the theatrical, dramaturgical, and visual character of his works has become predominant, even in his instrumental catalog. His music-theater productions (his instrumental and vocal works, then his operas) deserve to be examined from an aesthetic, analytical, and dramaturgical point of view. This symposium will bring together specialists in his music from France, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Portugal, the United States, and China.
Scientific Committee
Jean-François Boukobza, Laurent Feneyrou, Geneviève Mathon, Szabolcs Molnár
Organisation
Institut Liszt Paris, Márta Grabócz. In association with IRCAM, the université de Strasbourg, and the université Gustav Eiffel
Listen: Péter Eötvös
- Intervalles-Intérieurs by Péter Eötvös, 1982 (recorded at IRCAM, 2014)
- Moro Lasso by Péter Eötvös (recorded at the Théâtre musical de Paris, 1990)
- Steine by Péter Eötvös (recorded at the Théâtre du Châtelet, 1991)
- Hochzeitsmadrigal by Péter Eötvös (recorded at the Théâtre musical de Paris, 1991)
- Chinese Opera by Péter Eötvös (recorded at IRCAM, 1994)
- Psalm 151 (à la mémoire de Franck Zappa) by Péter Eötvös, 1994 (recorded at the Arsenal de Metz, 2004)
- Psy by Péter Eötvös, 1997 (recorded at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, 2014)