Na een eerste muzikale vorming van 1927-1931 in Barcelona, ging Maurice Ohana naar Parijs om architectuur te studeren, maar koos toch voor de muziek. Hier nam hij pianolessen bij Lazare Lévy en contrapunt- en harmonielessen bij Daniel Lesur aan het Schola Cantorum. Ohana vocht in het Britse leger tijdens de oorlog (Afrika en Egypte). In de tijd tussen 1936 en 1947 werkte hij ook als concertpianist. Vanaf 1944 was hij in Rome, waar hij leerling werd van de componist Alfredo Casella. Hier componeerde hij zijn eerste werken (1944-46). Bij zijn terugkeer in Parijs in 1946 was hij medeoprichter van de groep 'Zodiaque', die tegen het heersende muzikale dogma vocht. In 1950 componeerde Ohana een van zijn belangrijkste werken Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, beïnvloed door de Falla en de Spaanse "canto jondo" (een soort flamenco lied). Ohana werkte met Dutilleux en Schaeffer en hij was leraar aan de École Normale de Musique. (van: muziekbus.nl)
A composer of striking originality, given to rejecting schools, cliques, and fashions, Ohana pursued a distinguished career that is as hard to characterize as his nationality. His father had Andalusian heritage, but as the family had settled in Gibraltar, had British citizenship. Maurice was born in Morocco and brought up in Bayonne, France. He studied in Paris and Barcelona, joined the British Army in World War II and fought in Italy, staying behind to study composition with Casella. In 1947 he returned to Paris and founded a group called "Zodiaque," devoted to the ideal of artistic freedom, mainly freedom to reject the twelve-tone system that was then rapidly taking over European musical thought. His manifesto attacked serialism, "Parisian cliques," and avant-garde techniques. This made him a lifelong foe of the Pierre Boulez, the avant-garde serialist who led the dominant Parisian clique from that time and for the next half-century. (...) [Maurice Ohana, www.allmusic.com]|
A composer of striking originality, given to rejecting schools, cliques, and fashions, Ohana pursued a distinguished career that is as hard to characterize as his nationality. His father had Andalusian heritage, but as the family had settled in Gibraltar, had British citizenship. Maurice was born in Morocco and brought up in Bayonne, France. He studied in Paris and Barcelona, joined the British Army in World War II and fought in Italy, staying behind to study composition with Casella. In 1947 he returned to Paris and founded a group called "Zodiaque," devoted to the ideal of artistic freedom, mainly freedom to reject the twelve-tone system that was then rapidly taking over European musical thought. His manifesto attacked serialism, "Parisian cliques," and avant-garde techniques. This made him a lifelong foe of the Pierre Boulez, the avant-garde serialist who led the dominant Parisian clique from that time and for the next half-century. (...)|
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