Jacques Lenot

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French composer Jacques Lenot, born in 1945, claims an independent and self-taught course. His compositional techniques are derived from serialism.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Piano 2.1.1 Piano solo 2.1.2 Piano 4 hands 2.1.3 Two pianos 2.2 Organ 2.3 Vocal/Choral 2.4 Chamber music 2.4.1 Solos 2.4.2 Duos 2.4.3 Trios 2.4.4 String quartets 2.4.5 Other quartets 2.4.6 Quintets 2.4.7 Sextets 2.4.8 Septets 2.5 Concertante 2.6 Ensemble 2.7 Orchestra 2.8 Operas 2.9 Sound installations 2.10 Cycles 3 Score editors 4 Bibliography (all in French) 5 Discography 5.1 Monographies 5.2 Other recordings 6 External links

Biography

Jacques Lenot was born in Saint-Jean d’Angély (Charente-Maritime –on the Atlantic coast of France) on the 29th of August, 1945, to a family of small tradespeople. His father, a clock-maker, comes from the Doubs region, his mother originates from Champagne. Music holds a small place in his family’s life: his father seldom takes his violin out of its box and his mother rarely feels the urge to play the upright piano that occupies a place of honour in the house. Nonetheless, little Jacques learns the basics of piano and solfeggio in the family circle. His parents are regular subscribers to La Guilde du Disque, which allows Jacques to discover in text and on records the classical works of the repertoire.

At age eight he secretly begins to compose music in the style of Chopin, Debussy and Bartók. He fills whole schoolboys’ exercise books with music pieces bound to remain unachieved. His compositions will for a long time remain centered around the piano.

In the autumn of 1961, he is admitted to the “Ecole Normale d’Instituteurs” (the schoolteachers’ formation school) of La Rochelle. Thanks to the music teacher of the school, the pupils tackle difficult works. Jacques suffers a lasting and inspirational shock while listening to a recording of The Rite of Spring. At the 1965 beginning of term he begins what shall remain his only teaching position as schoolteacher at La Tremblade.

In 1963, the first edition of the Festival de Royan takes place, devoted exclusively to twentieth century music. For the first time, Lenot experiences this music with his inmost senses. He makes the acquaintance of Cécile Midas, meets again Maurice Fleuret, whom he had met formerly in La Rochelle, and binds with him a profound and lasting friendship. He confesses to them his vocation as a composer, a secret which he had kept to himself up to that point.

In 1966, he spends his holidays attending the Darmstadt classes, in particular those of Ligeti on Webern’s Bagatelles. There he also often meets with Kagel and Stockhausen (whose Gruppen and Klavierstücke he is still very fond of). On his return from Darmstadt, he composes his first completed work, Diaphanéïs, for sixty real parts of strings and metal percussions. Unbeknown to him, Cécile Midas, who happens to know Olivier Messiaen – both being part of the organization of the Royan Festival -, lays down the score on Messiaen’s office, in Paris. Messiaen has the score played during the Festival international d'art contemporain de Royan in 1967 .

In 1968 and 1969, he profits by the advices of Sylvano Bussotti, whom he worships as a master, and who tries to alienate him from the influence of Darmstadt. Thanks to Bussotti, he makes the acquaintance of Goffredo Petrassi and Franco Donatoni. Through Donatoni he gets acquainted with Giuseppe Sinopoli. Donatoni advises him to leave Bussotti’s sphere of influence.

In 1973, he tenders his resignation from the Education Nationale to devote himself entirely to composition. In 1974 he is a prize-winner of the Fondation de la Vocation (a french privately funded prize who’s aim is to recognize and financially help young and gifted talents in varied fields of knowledge and creation). In the very same year he attends the famous classes of Donatoni at the Accademia Chigiana in Sienna.

In 1975, Harry Halbreich commissions him a string quartet, to be played at the Royan Festival, and at the same time a work for the famous Orchestra of the Südwestfunk Baden-Baden (Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra). Both works shall be created in the spring of 1977.

In December of that year, Lenot moves to Paris. He signs an exclusive contract for the publication of his works with the Editions Salabert, for whom he also works as a transcriber (mainly of his own scores, but also of some of other composers).

In 1980, the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Pierre Boulez plays the first performance of Allégories d’exil IV: Dolcezze ignote all’estasi.

In 1983, Jacques Lenot gets a scholarship from the Ministère de la Culture.

In 1992, he obtains from the Department of Gers (southwestern France) a post of resident composer and moves to Plaisance-du-Gers. There he organizes conferences and training sessions, and composes his main body of works for piano and organ.

In 1997, he settles down in Groffliers in the Calais region, in the mostly inoccupied small house of the care-taker of a big property. He receives a commission from the Orchestre National de Lyon. Then, after Lenot had sent him his (not for sale) CD Pour Mémoire, the then director of the Opéra de Nancy Jean-Marie Blanchard, asks him for a work to be played by the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique of the Lorraine town, as, so to speak, the forerunner of a future opera. Blanchard and Lenot together choose a play by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Roberto Zucco, as the subject-matter of the future opera. After his departure from Nancy for the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Blanchard includes the work into the programme, upon which the legal beneficiaries withdraw their authorization. Blanchard and Lenot then agree on a new subject-matter for an opera: J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne, based on the play of Jean-Luc Lagarce.

Since the year 2000, Lenot lives in Roubaix, in northern France.

In 2003, upon a suggestion of SACEM and with the help of a private funder, Jacques Lenot creates a music publishing society L’Oiseau Prophète. The society publishes from now on all his music, including a number of scores reassigned by his former publisher. At the same time, he creates a non-profit organization Ciels traversés for raising and managing grants, with the sole purpose of printing scores and paying for performance material.

Since 2004, preferential links have developed between Lenot and the Intrada CD publisher, created by-and-large around the composer Eric Tanguy. Helped by private but also public funding (MFA, FCM, ADAMI) it has given birth to four CDs dedicated only to Lenot’s piano and chamber music.

In March 2005, Jacques Lenot is made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

At the end of January 2007, the opera J’étais dans ma maison et j’attendais que la pluie vienne is created at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. Hearing about the event, Joséphine Markovits, the musical art director of the Festival d’Automne à Paris, suggests that Jacques Lenot think about the creation of a sound installation with the collaboration of IRCAM. Supported in this step by IRCAM’s new director, Frank Madlener, Lenot decides to immerse himself into the strenuous learning of the computerized musical environment...

In 2008, the Musica Festival of Strasbourg devotes him a musical portrait by creating no less than eleven of his works, among which his fourth string quartet, played by the Arditti Quartet.

Works

Piano

Piano solo

• Agalma (Title after Daniel Arasse) (2008)
• Aura (2002)
• Avant le jour (2006)
• Belvédères I - Livre I - 45 pedagogical pieces (1979-1980)
• Belvédères I - Livre II - 24 pedagogical pieces (1979-1980)
• Belvédères IV - Sphinx, pedagogical pieces for 1,2,3 or 4 pianos (1982)
• Burrascoso (2004)
• Cités de la nuit (Title after John Rechy) (1981-2005)
• D'obscures étoiles (1978)
• Dramatis personae (2007)
• Errante, after François Couperin's Les Ombres Errantes (2006)
• Etudes pour piano 1 à 12 (1986-1989)
• Ils traversent la nuit (Title by José Lezama Lima) (2007)
• Inscriptions (on Karol Szymanowski's name) (2006)
• Là-bas (Title after Baudelaire) (2001)
• L'esprit de solitude (2004)
• Mascaret, after François Couperin's Les barricades mistérieuses (2006)
• Minutiae for piano and computer handling (2009)
• Piangendo (Allégories d'exil III) (1977-1978)
• Préludes pour piano (24) (1986-1996-2003 revision)
• Sans soleil (Title by Modest Moussorgski) (2007)
• Six premières études (1984)
• Sonate pour piano I (1971)
• Sonate pour piano II (1978)
• Sonate pour piano III (1979)
• Sonate pour piano IV (1980)
• Utopia glossa prima (1981)
• Vier Berliner Ansichtskarten mit Johannisbeeren (2005)
• We approach the sea (1982)

Piano 4 hands

• Le silence des sirènes, after a short story by Franz Kafka (2007)

Two pianos

• Fuge, dilecte mi (1975)
• Inscriptions (on Karol Szymanowski's name) (2006)
• Le Tombeau de Szymanowski (1987)
• Possible pure land emblem III (1994)

Organ

• Aus des Engel Ordnungen, Livre d'orgue I, 7th piece (1984)
• Cahier d'Orgue - 109 pedagogical pieces (1996)
• Deux pièces de fantaisie (1991)
• Esquisses (7 pieces) (1991)
• Fantaisies et pièces en trio (11 pieces) (1996)
• Heureux les vents qui fuient vers les jardins... (1988)
• La Victoire de Héraclius (1993)
• Le Livre des Dédicaces (25 pieces) (1987)
• Livre d'Orgue I ( 7 pieces) (1982-1990)
• Livre d'Orgue II ( 9 untitled pieces) (1992-1994, revised 2008)
• Livre d'Orgue III (24 pieces after Rainer Maria Rilke's 'The Book of Poverty and Death') (1994-1995)
• Manifesto per Ligeti (2007)
• Misti Organ Music (Title inspired by the Peruvian volcano above Arequipa) (2005)
• Mon royaume n'est pas de ce monde (title after the Gospel of Saint John 18-36) (2004)
• O vos omnes, after the Holy Friday Tenebrea Responsaries eleven répliques for organ that may be played separately (2007)
• Trois pièces d'orgue dites "de Rome" (so-called "Roma" pieces) (1993-1994)

Vocal/Choral

• Air de concert for mezzo-soprano and orchestra; texts by Jacques Lenot (1974)
• Allégories d'exil (withdrawn version) for soprano and 5 players: flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano; texts by Jacques Lenot (1975)
• Celui qui est couronné for counter tenor and ensemble; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1987)
• Cinq sonnets de Louise Labé for soprano, counter tenor and 7 musicians (1971-1973)
• Dal dolce pianto al doloroso riso for baryton and piano; texts by Michelangelo (1981-1991-2007)
• D'Autres Belvédères for choir and ensemble (1981)
• De elegia prima for 12 voices and 12 strings; texts by Jacques Lenot (1973)
• Else Lasker-Schüler Lieder for contralto and piano (also versions for mezzo-soprano and soprano) (2007)
• Espace de conflit (Allégories d'exil VII) for mezzo-soprano and 5 musicians: flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano; texts by Jacques Lenot 1978)
• Karl Exultate for soprano and orchestra; texts by Jacques Lenot (1974)
• La nuit (escapade) (Pédagogie) for voices and school orchestra (Effectif variable); texts by Jacques Lenot (1999-2000)
• Le Prologue de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce I) for counter tenor and 12 solo voices ; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1986)
• L'Ere du vaisseau for choir and orchestra; texts by Jean-Michel Buffarot (1980)
• Le Tombeau de Henri Ledroit for soprano, solo voices, choir, oboe d'amore, cello, organ and ensemble (1988)
• L'Infinito for soprano and 5 musicians: flute, clarinet, soprano saxophone, vibraphone and harp; poem by Giacomo Leopardi (1999)
• L'Oiseau prophète. (Pédagogie) for flute, piano and children voices; texts by children (1997)
• O beaux yeux bruns for soprano, violin, flute, vibraphone and piano; text by Louise Labé (2001)
• Oper'Avventi for vocal sextet, choir and orchestra (1972)
• Pour Mémoire II for soprano and large orchestra; texts by François Farel (1980)
• Pour un qui est allé loin de s'amie for mezzo-soprano and piano; poem by Clément Marot (2000)
• Sablier noir for mezzo-soprano and piano; poem by Cléo Vachon (1979)
• Scène for soprano, clarinet in B flat and piano; poem by Arthur Pétronio (2008)
• Sept sonnets de Louise Labé for soprano, counter tenor and 7 musicians (2001)
• Si les fleurs n’étaient que belles… for baryton and orchestra; words by Etienne de Senancour (Obermann 1833) (2005)
• Soliloque de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce V) for solo counter tenor; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1986)
• Stabat Mater for 2 counter tenors, tenor, baryton, bass, 3 violas da gamba, sackbutt and positive organ (1983)
• Surge, aquilo for organ and bass voice ad. lib. (1999)
• Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce, Caprice en trois tableaux for counter tenor, 12 solo voices and string quartet ; words by Jean Pierre Derrien (1986)
• Un enchaînement si prolongé de la grâce for 12 solo voices (1983)

Chamber music

Solos

• Beau calme nu for flute (1973)
• Belvédères II - pedagogical pieces for flute (1980)
• Belvédères III - 60 pedagogical pieces for clarinet (1981)
• Cir(c)é for oboe d'amore (1986)
• Conciliateur for alto flute (1991)
• De la mélancolie for viola (1987) or violin (1989)
• D'un seul souffle for flute (2006)
• E anela l'alba for clarinet (1974)
• Essai de voix for oboe (1978)
• Il meraviglioso, anzi (Title by Alberto Arbasino) for viola (2005)
• Karl Jubilate (de Querimonia) for cello (1973)
• L'Ange au sourire for bassoon (1981)
• La notte soffre for oboe (1973)
• Licht for flute (2004)
• Lullaby No Military Parade (Title borrowed from rock band Iliketrains) for violin (2006)
• Migrations/Oedipe (incomplete title) for cello (1984)
• Ohne Rilke for cello (2005)
• Scogli for bassoon (2002)
• Soliloque de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce V) for solo counter tenor; texts by Jean-Pierre Derrien (1986)
• Tormentoso for clarinet (2003)
• Traces for cello (1969)
• Utopia glossa quarta for bass flute (1982)
• Utopia glossa seconda for viola (1982)

Duos

• Alto contralto for 2 alto flutes (2005)
• Auf Naxos for flute and harp (1989)
• Aux Antiques rives heureuses for flute and cello (1986)
• Dans la rue du Jeune Anacharsis (Allégories d'exil, VIII) for flute and piano (1978)
• Distant voices for soprano saxophone and piano (1996)
• Douze duos for violin and piano (2005)
• Douze duos, version for clarinet and piano (2007)
• Échappée for viola and piano (1982)
• Esquif for viola and piano (2002)
• Est-ce le vent for cello and piano (1979)
• Frammento per l'armonia della notte for viola and harp (1974)
• Habiter la terre en poète for piccolo and piano (1994)
• In lovely blueness for cello and piano (1996)
• La nuit venue for flute and harp (or piano) (1999)
• La terre nous aimait un peu je me souviens, version for clarinet in B flat and piano (2006)
• Les merveilleux nuages for piccolo and piano (2001)
• Lied 1 Von ewiger Liebe de Brahms, en écho for clarinet in A and piano (1985)
• Lied 2 Dryades et Pan de Szymanowski, en écho for cello and piano (1985)
• Mit zartem Ausdruck for piccolo flute and piano (2006)
• Mit zartem Ausdruck, version for alto and piano (2006)
• Mit zartem Ausdruck, version for horn and piano (2006)
• Pianto al tuo fianco for flute and piano (1975)
• S'en aller ! S'en aller ! Parole de vivant for 2 flutes (1993)
• Sonate for cello and piano (1982)
• Trois pièces for viola and piano (1995)
• Utopia glossa terza for alto flute and piano (1982)
• Vivacissimo for flute and piano (1999)
• Vor Sonnenaufgang for horn and piano (2006)
• Vor Sonnenaufgang, version for flute and piano (2006)

Trios

• Célébration (Allégories d'exil VI) for string trio (1978, revised 1984)
• Comme de ce pur instant de mer qui précède la brise (L’esprit des Lieux II-I) for 3 clarinets (1981)
• Elisabeth S. Elegie for flute in G, viola and horn (2006)
• Harmonie for flute, violin and piano (1996)
• Immer for 2 pianos and percussion (1972)
• Larghetto con tenerezza for violin, cello and piano (2000)
• Le promeneur solitaire (Commentary of "Souvenir de Robert Walser" by W.G. Sebald) for clarinet in A, cello and piano (2006)
• Le Sylphe for flute, horn and harp (1997)
• Lied 3, Ruhe, meine Seele de R.Strauss, en écho for clarinet, cello and piano (1985)
• Lied 6, Sonate en trio en mi mineur, BWV 528 de J.S.Bach, en écho for clarinet in A, cello and piano (1986)
• Mit zartem Ausdruck for piccolo flute, viola and piano (2002)
• Omaggio a Donatoni for flute, violin and cello (2002)
• Per Tre for string trio (1969)
• Pien di quella ineffabile dolcezza for flute, vibraphone and piano (1996)
• Quasi sospeso for violin, cello and piano (1998)
• The Julian Trio for flute, cello and piano (1978)
• Trio à cordes for string trio (2005)
• Trio pour cor, violoncelle et piano for horn, cello and piano (1989)
• Trio pour flûte, cor et piano for flute, horn and piano (2006)

String quartets

• A propos de la grâce (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce IV) (1986)
• Aria for violin and string trio (2002)
• Quatuor à cordes I (1997)
• Quatuor à cordes II (2002)
• Quatuor à cordes III (2003)
• Quatuor à cordes IV (2004)
• Quatuor à cordes V (2005)
• Quatuor à cordes VI (2008)
• Sette Frammenti (1976)
• Trois Liebesliederwalzer (Un déchaînement si prolongé de la grâce II) (1986)
• Trois mouvements de quatuor à cordes (1991)
• Un froissement, très loin, de l'air (2005)

Other quartets

• Airs variés dans un paysage (Allégories d'exil IX) for 4 flutes (1978)
• La terre nous aimait un peu je me souviens for clarinet in B flat, vibraphone, harp and piano (2006)
• Lied 4, Aiguillettes en ariettes de Michel Lambert, en écho for violin, flute, oboe and bassoon (1985)
• Lied 7, Simultan de Ingeborg Bachmann, en écho for bassoon, double bass, harp and piano (1986)
• Livre de violes I for 4 violas da gamba (1990)
• Mit zartem Ausdruck for piccolo flute, viola, horn and piano (2006)

Quintets

• Allegretto gioviale for piano and string quartet (2002)
• Clameurs for flute, English horn or clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano (1969-1970)
• Floris Music for vibraphone, celesta, cembalo, marimba and piano (1998)
• Inquieto for piano and string quartet (2003)
• Inquieto, altro for piano and string quartet (2005)
• Paysage avec figures absentes for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello (1994)
• Quasi una partita for wind quintet (1996)
• Quintette à cordes, after Mozart's K. 593 for string quintet (2007)
• Quintette avec flûte for flute and string quartet (2008)
• Quintette à vent for wind quintet (1987)
• Sur le ton de la joie for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp (1989)
• Utopia glossa quinta for alto, flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello and piano (1982)
• Vogel als Prophet for alto, flute, clarinet, vibraphone, horn and harp (1998)

Sextets

• Cavatine for cello and string quintet (1992)
• Dans le tumulte des flots I for string sextet (1982)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II: II - Un soleil obscur à la cime des vagues for string quartet, double bass and piano (1981)
• Uraeus for violin and string quintet (1987)

Septets

• Der Einzige for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, violin, viola and cello (1988)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II: IV - A l'aube, le rivage for alto flute, English horn, clarinet in A, bassoon, 2 horns and trombone (1981)
• O alter Duft for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin, viola and cello (1998)
• Paysages de fantaisie for flute, clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello (1997)
• Wanderlust for flute, clarinet in B flat, tenor trombone, violin, viola, cello and double bass (2009)

Concertante

• Abrupts jeux d’ailes (title after Stéphane Mallarmé) for viola and strings (2008)
• A.S.C. for piano and 18 musicians (1971)
• Amarlied for cello and orchestra (1974)
• Aria (d'après Giacomo Leopardi) for violin and string trio (2002)
• Au bord des fleuves de Babylone for organ and orchestra (1992-1993)
• Aux rives ultérieures for violin and 10 musicians (1988)
• Barbelés intérieurs for 2 pianos and ensemble (1968)
• Capriccio for flute and 11 musicians (1995)
• Cavatine for cello and string quintet (1992)
• Chiaroscuro version for piano and orchestra (2006)
• Concerto pour piano et orchestre I (1975)
• Concerto pour piano et orchestre II (1991-1993)
• Dans le tumulte des flots II for violin, string sextet and ensemble (1982)
• De par les rues, la mémoire for flute, piano and strings (1975)
• Effigie for flute(s) and orchestra (1992)
• Enclaves for cello and orchestra (1978-1979)
• Erinnern als Abwesenheit II for piano and ensemble (2009)
• Erinnern als Abwesenheit III for alto and ensemble (2009)
• Espace latent (Allégories d'exil V) for piano and 8 wind instruments (1976-1978)
• Et incarnatus est for flute, oboe, clarinet and 15 musicians (1974)
• Exergue (Allégories d'exil I) for cello and 17 musicians (1977)
• Inquieto, altro for piano and string quartet (2005)
• Intermezzo for horn and orchestra (1995)
• La Défaite de Chosroès for cello and 10 musicians (1989-1991)
• La Gerusalemme celeste (title after the Bible) for organ and orchestra (2005)
• La vie éternelle rayonne sur les feuilles du jardin for cello and orchestra (1998-2001)
• Le chant de Memnon for flute and orchestra (1992)
• Le ciel brûle d'étoiles for organ and brass (2000)
• L'Esprit des lieux: Livre I - I - La mer à longs traits s'est retirée de mes songes for clarinet in A and 13 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux: Livre I - II - La bourrasque emporte ses funérailles vers la mer for cello and 12 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux: Livre I - III - Bientôt le soleil retrouvera ses antiques disciples for harp and 16 musicians (1981)
• Lied 5, Soave sia il vento de Mozart, en écho for oboe, horn, piano and string sextet (1985)
• Lied 9. " l'Archange " for clarinet and 9 musicians (1987)
• Liens for piccolo, piano and orchestra (2006)
• Maurice Fleuret : In Memoriam for organ and 8 wind instruments (1990)
• Nuit d'Eté for cello and orchestra (1984)
• Parmi les hiérarchies des anges for viola, organ and orchestra (1985)
• Pensieri dolenti for organ and string sextet (1989)
• Pour Mémoire I for piano and large orchestra (1980)
• Quasi una serenata for viola and 10 musicians (1998)
• Querimonia for cello and orchestra (1974)
• Uraeus for violin and string quintet (1987)
• Wie aus der Ferne for cello and 11 musicians (1998)

Ensemble

• AL OL for orchestra (1998)
• Avventi for large ensemble (1969)
• Avventi - Ballet for orchestra (1973)
• Cinquante quatre fragments sur la Déploration du Christ, Commentaire d'un tableau de Ambrogio Fossano dit 'le Bergognone', Collection Campana, Musée du Petit-Palais, Avignon for 9 musicians (2004)
• Comme au loin for 10 wind instruments (1976-1977)
• Concerto pour 13 instruments for 13 instruments (1987)
• Diaphanéis for strings and percussions (1966)
• Dolcezze ignote all'estasi (Allégories d'exil IV) for 26 musicians (1977)
• Épitaphe (Allégories d'exil II) for wind orchestra and percussion (1977)
• Erinnern als Abwesenheit I for ensemble (2009)
• Hommage à Schubert pedagogical piece for orchestra (1996)
• Im fröhlichen Ton for 12 cellos (1982-1990)
• In illo tempore for 17 musicians (1973)
• In lieblicher Blaüe for orchestra (1987)
• Là eussent dû être des roses pedagogical piece for orchestra (1995)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I - IV - Où la brume venue de la mer ondoyait près de l'horizon for 12 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II - II - Un soleil obscur à la cime des vagues for string quartet, double bass and piano (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II - III - Le vent du soir ramène sa dépouille vers la grève for 19 musicians (1981)
• Lied 8, Allein Gott in der Höh, BWV 662 de J.S.Bach, en écho for 12 musicians (1986)
• Lux aeterna In memoriam György Ligeti for 9 musicians (2006)
• Océan captif for 4 groups of soloists (1976)
• Pour mémoire III for string orchestra (1980)
• Solacium for 8 musicians (1974)
• Torse d'espace for string orchestra (1975)
• Un grand principe de violence commandait for 16 musicians (1980)
• Utopia Parafrasi for 16 musicians (1983)
• Versants for 11 solo strings (1969)
• Versants-Traces for 11 solo strings (1972)

Orchestra

• AL OL (1998)
• Avventi - Ballet (1973)
• Dans la continuité des Parques (2001)
• Épilogue (Allégories d'exil X) (1978)
• Sinfonia for large orchestra (1975-1977)
• Variations (1977)

Operas

• J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne opera (2002-2003); libretto by Jacques Lenot after Jean-Luc Lagarce's play
• Roberto Zucco opera (commission and property of Grand-Théâtre de Genève. Rights blocked) (1999-2000) after Bernard-Marie Koltès's play

Sound installations

• Il y a (in collaboration with Eric Daubresse and Greg Beller from IRCAM) (2007-2009)
• Mehr Licht (title after Goethe) (2003)

Cycles

• Allégories d'exil I: Exergue for cello and 17 musicians (1977)
• Allégories d'exil II: Épitaphe for wind orchestra and percussion (1977)
• Allégories d'exil III: Piangendo for piano (1977-1978)
• Allégories d'exil IV: Dolcezze ignote all'estasi for 26 musicians (1977)
• Allégories d'exil V: Espace latent for piano and 8 wind instruments (1976-1978)
• Allégories d'exil VI: Célébration for string trio (1978, revised 1984)
• Allégories d'exil VII: Espace de conflit for mezzo-soprano and 5 musicians: flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano; texts by Jacques Lenot (1978)
• Allégories d'exil VIII: Dans la rue du Jeune Anacharsis for flute and piano (1978)
• Allégories d'exil IX: Airs variés dans un paysage for 4 flutes (1978)
• Allégories d'exil X: Épilogue for orchestra (1978)

• Belvédères I - Livre I - 45 pedagogical pieces for piano (1979-1980)
• Belvédères I - Livre II - 24 pedagogical pieces for piano (1979-1980)
• Belvédères II - pedagogical pieces for flute (1980)
• Belvédères III - 60 pedagogical pieces for clarinet (1981)
• Belvédères IV - Sphinx, pedagogical pieces for 1,2,3 or 4 pianos (1982)

• Erinnern als Abwesenheit I for ensemble (2009)
• Erinnern als Abwesenheit II for piano and ensemble (2009)
• Erinnern als Abwesenheit III for alto and ensemble (2009)

• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I - I - La mer à longs traits s'est retirée de mes songes for clarinet in A and 13 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I- II - La bourrasque emporte ses funérailles vers la mer for cello and 12 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I- III - Bientôt le soleil retrouvera ses antiques disciples for harp and 16 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre I- IV - Où la brume venue de la mer ondoyait près de l'horizon for 12 musicians (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- I - Comme de ce pur instant de mer qui précède la brise for 3 clarinets (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- II - Un soleil obscur à la cime des vagues for string quartet, double bass and piano (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- III - Le vent du soir ramène sa dépouille vers la grève for 19 musiciens (1981)
• L'Esprit des lieux, Livre II- IV - A l'aube, le rivage for alto flute, English horn, clarinet in A, bassoon, 2 horns and trombone (1981)

• Lied 1, Von ewiger Liebe de Brahms, en écho for clarinet in A and piano (1985)
• Lied 2, Dryades et Pan de Szymanowski, en écho for cello and piano (1985)
• Lied 3, Ruhe, meine Seele de R.Strauss, en écho for clarinet, cello and piano (1985)
• Lied 4, Aiguillettes en ariettes de Michel Lambert, en écho for violin, flute, oboe and bassoon (1985)
• Lied 5, Soave sia il vento de Mozart, en écho for oboe, horn, piano and string sextet (1985)
• Lied 6, Sonate en trio en mi mineur, BWV 528 de J.S.Bach, en écho for clarinet in A, cello and piano (1986)
• Lied 7, Simultan de Ingeborg Bachmann, en écho for bassoon, double bass, harp and piano (1986)
• Lied 8, Allein Gott in der Höh, BWV 662 de J.S.Bach, en écho for 12 musicians (1986)
• Lied 9, L'Archange for clarinet and 9 musicians (1987)

• Pour Mémoire I for piano and large orchestra (1980)
• Pour Mémoire II for soprano and orchestra (1980)
• Pour Mémoire III for string orchestra (1980)

• Utopia glossa prima for piano (1981)
• Utopia glossa seconda for viola (1982)
• Utopia glossa terza for alto flute and piano (1982)
• Utopia glossa quarta for bass flute (1982)
• Utopia glossa quinta for alto flute, clarinet in A, violin, cello and piano (1982)
• Utopia Parafrasi for 16 musicians (1983)

Score editors

• Amphion (Durand-BMG)
• Editions Françaises de Musique / Billaudot
• L'Oiseau Prophète Editeur
• MômeLudies / CFMI
• Ricordi Paris (BMG)
• Salabert (BMG)
• Suvini Zerboni

Bibliography (all in French)

• Jacques LENOT, Utopies & Allégories, entretiens recueillis par Franck Langlois, éditions MF, collection « Paroles », 2007

• Franck Mallet, « Entretien avec Jacques LENOT », in Le Monde de la Musique (December 1986)
• Philippe Gueit, « Un compositeur français d'aujourd'hui », in Revue internationale de musique française, n° 30 (1989)
• Andréa Corraziari, « Les études pour piano du premier livre de György Ligeti : un laboratoire pédagogique », mémoire en pédagogie, CNSMDP, 2007

Discography

Monographies

• Jacques LENOT, Etude n° 1 à Etude n° 12, in « Les Etudes pour piano » Dominique My (piano), CD Una Corda ACCORD, 1992, N° 201982

• Jacques LENOT, Le soliloque de la grâce, Le tombeau de Henri Ledroit (sur un poème de La Fontaine) I à Le tombeau de Henri Ledroit XII, in « Le tombeau de Henri Ledroit » Philippe Herreweghe, Henri Ledroit, CD FY Solstice, 1992, N° SOCD 80

• Jacques LENOT, Wie aus der Ferne, Pien di quella ineffabile dolcezza, Vogel als Prophet, Floris Music, Harmonie, O alter Duft, in « Charmes » Sarah Veilhan (violoncelle), Ensemble transparences, dir. Sylvain Blassel, CD Etoile Production, 1999, N° EP 0004

• Jacques LENOT, Aura, Là-bas, Scogli, Esquif, Omaggio a Donatoni, Quatuor à cordes n° 2, Allegretto gioviale, in « Liens – Musique de chambre » Quatuor Rosamonde, Henri Demarquette (violoncelle), Xavier Gagnepain (violoncelle), Pascal Gallois (basson), Vahan Mardirossian (piano), Magali Mosnier-Karoui (flûte), Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian (violon), Jean Sulem (alto), Agnès Sulem-Bialobroda (premier violon), Thomas Tercieux (second violon), CD Intrada, 2004, N° INTRA009

• Jacques LENOT, « Œuvres pour piano volume 1 » including: Six premières études / Etude 1 à 5 ; We approach the sea ; Burrascoso ; Préludes du second livre – XIII D'un horizon dorien, XVI Wie der Abendwind, XVII Par temps gris, XVIII If there were the sound of water only, XIX Orages (différés), XX Ô toi désir, qui vas chanter, XV The name of Alice, XXI Car l'onde s'est tue, XXII Un giugno mesto, XXIII C'étaient de très grands vents, XXIV Un chant retrouvé, Winston Choi (piano), CD Intrada, 2004, N° INTRA012

• Jacques LENOT, « Œuvres pour piano volume 2 » including: Cités de la nuit, VI – Lugubre, IV – Prestissimo, volante, V & VI (Re-recording) – Possible Pure Land Emblem I, II et III, I – Un chant éloigné, IV – Je veux de ces fragments étayer mes ruines, VII – Là eussent dû être des roses, XI – Falling Skies, VIII – En bleu adorable, XII – Je t’interroge, plénitude et c’est un tel mutisme, X – Ciels (traversés), III – Un chant éperdu, IX – Où puis-je m’enfuir ?, XIV – Maintenant il serait temps que les dieux sortent des choses habitées, II – Anges, anges, fauchez !, L’Esprit de solitude, Winston Choi (piano), CD Intrada, 2006, N° INTRA017

• Jacques LENOT, « Œuvres pour piano volume 3 » including: Agalma ; Avant le jour ; Dramatis personae ; Errante ; Ils traversent la nuit ; Inscriptions sur le nom de Karol Szymanowski ; Mascaret ; Sans soleil, Winston Choi (piano), CD Intrada, to be issued (2009), N° INTRA044

Other recordings

• Jacques LENOT, Lied VI, in « Alain Damiens, clarinette » (with works by Philippe Fénelon, Vinko Globokar, Philippe Haim, Iannis Xenakis), Alain Damiens (clarinet), CD MFA, 1991, N° 581277

• Jacques LENOT, Livre d’Orgue, extrait V, in « Pierre Bousseau » (with works by György Ligeti, Claude Vivier, Bernard Cavanna, Giacinto Scelsi, Jeannine Richer, Arvo Pärt), CD ADDA, 1991, N° 581240

• Jacques LENOT, Dans la rue du jeune Anacharsis, in « Allégories d’exils » (with works by Hans Werner Henze, Arthur Petronio, Ferrucio Busoni, Hany Fouad), Jean-Louis Beaumadier (flutes), Jacques Reynaut (piano), CD Calliope, 1995, N° 9227

• Jacques LENOT, Ciels (traversés), Esquisse du prélude 12, in « Le piano contemporain », Dominique My (piano), CD Accord, 1996, N° 205752

• Jacques LENOT, Tormentoso, in « Œuvres pour clarinette seule » (with works by Edison Denisov, Éric Tanguy, Franco Donatoni, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez and Igor Stravinsky), Nicolas Baldeyrou (clarinette), CD Intrada, 2004, N° INTRA010

• Jacques LENOT, Mon royaume n'est pas de ce monde, in « Concerts au grand orgue de Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Paris) » (with works by Jehan Alain, César Franck, Marcel Dupré…), Marie-Claire Alain, Yves Castagnet, Thierry Escaich, Vincent Warnier (organs), CD Intrada, 2005, N° INTRA018

• Jacques LENOT, La Gerusalemme celeste, in « Autour du concerto pour orgue de Poulenc » (with works by Francis Poulenc, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Daniel Roth), Vincent Warnier (organ), Les Siècles orchestra (conductor: François-Xavier Roth), CD Intrada, 2006, N° INTRA028

External links

• Jacques Lenot's personal site
• Jacques Lenot at Intrada
• (French) A biography of Jacques Lenot, from IRCAM's website.
• Entretien avec Bertrand Bolognesi (16/11/2005)
• Excerpts from sound archives of Lenot's works.