Biography of Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
04.04.1905
Born in Nizza (France)
First price at the Paris conservatory for violin, conducting and composition in various years
Winner of the Prix de Rome
1939
Conductor at the Opera Comique in paris
1940
Image for flute solo
1942
Agrestide is written for the competition of the Paris conservatory
1948
Head of the Conservatory in Valenciennes
1950
Director of the conservatory in Valenciennes (bis 1975)
Popular for his unique woodwind chamber music
28.09.1991
Dies in Valenciennes
Further information/Sources:
- → Eugène Bozza bei Wikipedia
- → CDs by/of Eugène Bozza bei JPC (mit Hörproben)
- → Music by/with Eugène Bozza at amazon.de
Sheet music for flute:
Agrestide op. 44
(flute, piano)
Alphonse Leduc, AL 20101
Rating: difficult
- Modere dans le style d'une pastorale - Cadence - Andantino - Anime - Piu vivo
Written for the competition of the conservatory.
Air Pastoral
(flute (oboe), piano)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 25409
Rating: mid-grade
- Moderato calme - Piu vivo
Sounds good with organ, too. Very calm music, as meant for oboe, too, mainly in the middle and lower range.
Only one page for the flute. Due to the alternative instrumentation with oboe written in the first and second octave. I played this with organ, too.
Berceuse
(flute (oboe), piano)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 25 410
Rating: mid-grade
- Calme
Very lyrical in the low range.
Berceuse et Sérénade (C-Dur)
(flute, guitar)
Alphonse Leduc, AL 25403
Rating: very easy
- Berceuse - Andantino
- Serenade - Allegretto
Cinq Chansons sur des Themes Japonais
(flute, piano)
Alphonse Leduc, Al 25 438
Rating: easy
- Chant triste d iwate
- Lutte des guerriers a cheval
- Les eaux de kusatsu
- Chant d amour
- Les moissonneurs de miyazaki
Very short pieces. Seems technically easy for music written by Bozza.
Concertino da camera
(flute, piano orchestral excerpt)
Alphonse Leduc, Al 23355
Rating: very difficult
- Fantasque et leger
- Larghetto
- Allegro brillante
Contrastes I
(flute, bassoon)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 25441
Rating: mid-grade
- Andante
- Moderato
- Allegretto
- Allegretto
- Largetto sostenuto
- Calme
- Allegretto
- Allegro
Two scores, very useful.
Deux Esquisses (Bearbeitung)
(4 flutes)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 24.582
Rating: very difficult
- Les Sons et les parfums dans la Plaine
- Reflet dans le vent
These are the parts. The score is available in the same edition.
Fantaisie italienne
(flute, piano)
Alphonse Leduc, AL 21153
Rating: difficult
- Moderato - Allant
Image pour flûte seule 38
(flute)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 19908
Rating: very difficult
Written in 1940
Interflude
(recorder (flute))
Alphonse Leduc, A.L.25.639
Rating: difficult
- Calme
Dedicated to Claude Demarets, professor at Lille Conservatory
Jour d été à la montagne
(4 flutes)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 21317
Rating: mid-grade
- Pastorale
- Au bord du torrent
- Le Chant des forêts
- Ronde
Parts and pocket score
Phorbéia
(flute)
Alphonse Leduc, AL 25578
Rating: difficult
- Calme
Quatre Pièce Faciles
(flute, piano)
Alphonse Leduc, AL 25323
Rating: very easy
- Rêves d'Enfant (Andantino)
- Le Campanile
- Menuet des Pages
- eili - Eili - (Mélodie Hébraique)
Scherzo op. 48
(flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn)
Alphonse Leduc, B. L. 763
Rating: difficult
- Scherzo - Allegro vivo
Only parts, the score is available separately.
Serenade
(flute, oboe, clarinet in H flat, bassoon)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 23642
Rating: difficult
- Allegro vivo
- Calme
- Vif
Sounds quite like the Serenade en trio. I don't know yet, which one was first.
Pocket score and parts in a very fine paper quality.
Serenade en Trio
(flute, clarinet, bassoon)
Alphonse Leduc, Al 24 538
Rating: difficult
- Entree
- Fuguette
- Gigue
Sounds very much like the quartet version. The flute has much more to play in this version. A small score is included.
Soir dans les Montagnes (F-Dur)
(flute, piano)
Alphonse Leduc, A.L. 21304
Rating: difficult
- Moderato - Più animato - Allegro vivo
Sonatine
(flute, bassoon)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 19 677
Rating: mid-grade
- Allegro
- Andantino
- Vif
Score and very over sized.
Trois Évocations
(2 flutes)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 27 401
Rating: difficult
- Un Reflet Dans le Vent
- Chant Dans un Paysage Triste
- Danse de Shiva
Trois Mouvements
(flute, clarinet in H flat)
Alphonse Leduc, 25 155
Rating: difficult
- Allegretto
- Moderato
- Allegro giocoso
Score
Trois Pieces
(flute, guitar)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 25.405
Rating: mid-grade
- Capriccioso, fantastico
- Calme
- Allegro vivo
2 scores
Trois Pièces (E-Dur)
(4 flutes)
Alphonse Leduc, Al 25 583
Rating: easy
- Très modèré (souple)
- Andantino
- Allegro
Parts and score. The later one in handwriting.
Trois Pieces pour une musique de nuit
(flute, oboe, clarinet in H flat, bassoon)
Alphonse Leduc, A. L. 21307
Rating: mid-grade
- Andantino
- Allegro vivo
- Moderato
Nice edition with a small score included. Very good paper. Appropriate for so nice a music. And it is not so difficult for a composition of Bozza.
Vierzehn Arabeske-Studien (Etüde)
(flute)
Alphonse Leduc, AL 22 830
Rating: very difficult
- A piacere
- Allegro
- Moderato ma con tenerezza
- Molto moderato
- Allegro moderato
- Moderato
- Andantino
- Allegro scherzando
- Rapido e leggiero
- Allegro vivace
- Allegro vivace
- Lento
- Moderato
- Veloce
Beautiful, if you like Bozza, like I do.
CDs with/from Eugène Bozza
Patrick Gallois, Lydia Wong
French Flute Music (2005)
Poulenc - Messiaen - Dutilleux - Jolivet
- Allegro malinconico (04:30:00)
- Cantilena (03:56:00)
- Presto giocoso (03:26:00)
- Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle Noir (05:42:00)
- Pierre Sancan: Sonatine (09:08:00)
- André Jolivet: Chant de Linos (10:25:00)
- Henri Dutilleux: Sonatine (09:30:00)
- Eugène Bozza: Sonatine (12:58:00)
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano:
From A to Z - Volume 1 (2000)
- I. Viertel = 66 (08:57:00)
- II. Presto (04:09:00)
- Poco Adagio (05:06:00)
- Allegro (05:02:00)
- Allegro (04:53:00)
- Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy for Flute (04:30:00)
- Lento ad libitum (02:19:00)
- Allegro molto (00:46:00)
- Eugène Bozza: Image pour flûte seule Op. 38 (1940) (05:13:00)
- Allemande (05:20:00)
- Corrente (03:58:00)
- Sarabande (05:34:00)
- Bourree Anglaise (02:43:00)
- Luciano Berio: Sequenza I per flauto solo (1958) (07:23:00)
Kalevi Aho: Solo III:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonate a-moll W. 132:
Jurriaan Andriessen: Pastorale d'été:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita a-moll BWV 1013:
Ich liebe diese Interpretation der Sequenza.... tolle Tonkultur.
Albireo Querflötenquartett
Musikalische Impressionen (2006)
Querflötenmusik im 20. Jahrhunder - Volume 2 - Französische Komponisten
- Bergers (00:00:01)
- La Syrinx Magique (02:24:00)
- Dyrades (02:04:00)
- Flûtes Pastorales (02:24:00)
- Flûtes Joyeuses (02:28:00)
- Flûtes Rêveuses (02:33:00)
- Flûtes Légères (02:33:00)
- Moderato (03:39:00)
- Andantino (01:57:00)
- Allegro (01:49:00)
- Fêtes (02:00:00)
- Passepied (01:52:00)
- Tambourin (01:28:00)
- D un Regard Etrange... (03:44:00)
- La Capricieuse (02:10:00)
- La Gracieuse Bonne et Belle (04:23:00)
- Le Dialogue des Camèristes (04:49:00)
- Allegro deciso (00:00:03)
- Andantino (03:46:00)
- Allegro scherzando (03:15:00)
- Allegro vivace (02:16:00)
Marc Berthomieu: Arcadie Quatuor:
Jacques Castérède: Flûtes en Vancances:
Eugène Bozza: Trois Pièces:
Pierre Max Dubois: Quatuor pour Flûtes:
Pierre Paubon: Quatre Aspects Féminins:
Jean-Michel Damase: Quatuor de Flûtes:
Jean-Michel Damase: Quauor de Flûtes:
Selandia Ensemble
Wind Chamber Music (1989)
- Claude Debussy: Petite Suite (En Bateau - Cortége - Menuet - Ballet) (12:10:00)
- Gabriel Pierné: Pastorale (02:58:00)
- Eugène Bozza: Trois piéces pour une musique de nuit (Andantino - Allegro vivo - Moderato) (05:50:00)
- Jorgen Bentzon: Racconto No. 3 (09:44:00)
- Claude Debussy: Syrinx (02:49:00)
- Finn Hoffding: Dialogues (General conversation - Serious conversation - Wrangling - Elevated conversation - Cheerful conversation) (08:49:00)
- Knudage Riisager: Divertimento (Allegro leggiero - Andantino pastorale - Vivace) (09:21:00)
- Jean Françaix: Quatuor (Allegro - Andante - Allegro molto - Allegro vivo) (10:57:00)
Literature von/über Eugène Bozza
- Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7
Last edit 14.07.2020