Andr Jolivet (1905-1974) Compositor y director de orquesta francs, n. y m.

en Pars. En el Conservatorio de Pars estudi con E. Varese y P. le Flem y en

1935 fue fundador, junto con Daniel-Lesur y O. Messiaen de Spirale, una
sociedad de promocin musical que en 1936 tomara el nombre de J eune
France. En este perodo sus obras estn dominadas por el misticismo y el
sentimiento de lo mgico, como lo denuncian los ttulos de algunos de sus
trabajos: Cinq incantations, para flauta (1937); Cinq danses rituelles, para
orquesta (1938); Cosmogonie, para piano (1938). El segundo perodo significa
el encuentro con temas ms humanos y menos esotricos, y tiene como obras
ms destacadas Trois chants des hommes (1937) y Les complaintes du soldat,
para bartono y orquesta (1940). Su curiosidad creativa se orienta asimismo
hacia una escritura armnica ms rica y compleja, visible en su Concert pour
ondes Martenot (1947). En 1963 fue nombrado presidente de los Conciertos
Lamoureux y en 1966 pas a ejercer de profesor en el Conservatorio en la
ctedra de composicin. Entre sus ltimas obras se pueden sealar el oratorio
La verit de J eanne (1956), la pera bufa Dolors (1960), Crmonial, obra de
percusin homenaje a Varese (1969); Controverse, para oboe y arpa (1970); y
Heptade, para trompeta y percusin (1971).

Andr Jolivet (1905-1974): Cinq Incantations pour flte seule
Pour accueillir les negociateurs - et que l'entrevue soit pacifique.
Pour que l'enfant qui va naitre soit un fils.
Pour que la moisson soit riche qui naitre des sillons que le laboureur trace.
Pour une communion sereine de l'etre avec le monde.
Aux funerailles du chef - pou obtenir la protection de son ame.
"The Incantation is the trembling formof Negro refinement, beside which we are
sorcerers' apprentices." (Andr J olivet)
Incantations marks the beginning of Andr J olivet's second productive period and of a
long series of flute pieces. It represents his creativity, anguish, sorrow and hope.
In 1936 he composed a suite of five pieces entitled Incantations, first performed by J an
Merry at the Societ Nationale in Paris on the 7th of May 1938. With Yves Baudrier,
Daniel Lesur and Olivier Messiaen, he had just founded the J eune France group. His
mother died on the 19th of J une 1936, a few weeks before he began to compose
Incantations. It is fascinating, magical music, expressive and virtuose, profound and
noble, described by the composer as follows:
In 1936 when I wrote Cinq Incantations for solo flute, I wanted to state the prime
importance of the monodic element in music, i.e. melody meticulously organised from
the point of view both of successive harmony (the sequence of intervals) and of rhythm,
volume and pitch. The only purpose, however, of the carefully measured combinations
of these different elements is to generate musical feeling and, in the most sensitive (or
the "newest") listeners, a feeling similar to the panic impulses of primitive man. It was
better to achieve this result that I chose the flute which is the musical instrument par
excellence because, endowed with life by the breath, man's deepest emanation, the flute
charges sounds with what is both visceral and cosmic in us.
It is never a pastiche of oriental music nor a reference to the music of so-called
primitive peoples. Repetition no doubt plays a vital part, as it does in any other
operation of a magical kind, particularly in the first and third incantations. In the fifth
the repetition, three times, of the introductory figure and the concluding statement has a
special feature - in these repetitions added sounds increase the vitality (which speeds up
the listener's psycho-physiological impulses). The titles indicate the magical
appropriation of each Incantation and their form arises from this appropriation. Pour
une communion sereine de l'etre avec le monde (For serene communion of the being
with the world), originally called Pour integrer sa joie dans le grouillement vital
universal (To integrate one's joy in the universal vital teeming), is one of my essential
works, both in its lyrical flow and in the philosophy which it expresses, similar to
Teilhard de Chardin's when he says: Matter: matrix of the spirit - Spirit: superior state
of master.

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