Guise, Jean François de – La caravane pour quatuor de cors en fa et tuba op.17, No. 2

Guise Jean François de
La caravane
pour quatuor de cors en fa et tuba
op. 17, no. 2

Jean Francois de Guise was born on 15.05.1970. He received his first musical lessons in 1976 in recorder. From 1977 the trumpet became his main instrument, to which in the following years were added the subjects of music theory, composition, piano and organ, as well as conducting and singing. From 1991 to 1996 he studied in Paris, among other places.
His teachers included Jean Langlais, Sergiu Celebidache and Rolf Reuter. De Guise was particularly influenced in composition by the American composer Elliott Carter.
For many years he worked as a solo trumpeter and conductor with renowned orchestras before devoting himself almost exclusively to composition and teaching.
De Guise's compositional output includes some 450 works, including 4 operas and 32 orchestral concertos.
He is currently active as a freelance composer, organist and lecturer.
In his compositions Jean Francois de Guise uses various techniques. Thus, he also uses forms of serial technique, especially that of the extended 12-tone technique. In the broadest sense, his compositions can thus be classified as free-tonal music (New Complexity Music). In his music he tries to make sound, rhythm and formal language transparent for the performer and finally also for the listener. Jean Francois de Guise often uses very difficult, finely worked out structures and motif forms, whereby compositional connections only become evident in the interplay. For this reason, his works demand a great deal of precision and exact intonation from the players. This is further reinforced by the fact that de Guise generally avoids doubling in notation and takes care to create a chamber music-like sound even in orchestral works. Many of his works are only playable by specialists in contemporary classical music and are also aimed at the instrumental elite.
Probably for this reason several of his works are already part of scientific publications and are also used as a working basis for young composers.

4 horns; tuba
score & 5 parts / 18 pages