Souvenirs de France
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By Jean Berger
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Kjos
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String Quartet
Level: 3
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Jean Berger
JEAN BERGER (1909 – 2002), composer and conductor, was born in Hamm, Germany. The son of Orthodox Jews, he grew up in Alsace-Lorraine and attended the universities of Heidelberg and Vienna. He studied musicology with Egon Wellesz and Heinrich Bessler, and he received his doctorate in musicology in 1931 from Heidelberg.
After serving briefly as assistant conductor at the Darmstadt Opera (1932 – 1933), Mr. Berger was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1933. He moved to Paris and studied composition and orchestration with Louis Aubert and Pierre Capdevielle. He also conducted Les Compagnons de la Marjolaine, a mixed choir, while in Paris. In 1937, Mr. Berger’s choral work Le Sang des Autres won first prize at an international competition in Zurich.
Mr. Berger’s compositions have been performed extensively by leading choral and orchestral organizations in Europe and the United States. His choral works constitute the bulk of his compositions, where he avoids an academic style and prefers a pragmatic blend of Franco-German folk music, South American melody and rhythm, and polyphonic modality. Brazilian Psalm (1941) has entered the standard American choral repertory, and it remains one of Berger’s most popular compositions.
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