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= Draft: Patrice Sciortino = Patrice Sciortino (July 26, 1922 - January 20, 2022) was a French composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and teacher.

Early life
Patrice Sciortino was born in Paris on July 26, 1922. His father, Edouard Sciortino, also a composer, was a student of Vincent d'Indy and a teacher of Gregorian chant at the Schola Cantorum, the school which d'Indy co-founded. His mother was a poet and an amateur pianist. Patrice began his musical studies at age six, and at age thirteen, was accepted to the Schola Cantorum, where he studied piano and composition, with his father as one of his composition teachers.

Career
Sciortino had a prolific and varied musical career which spanned nearly eight decades. Beginning in 1946, he practiced many different musical professions in Paris, including teaching, conducting, orchestration, and composition.

As a composer, his work spanned many different artistic formats, including radio, television, stage, and cinema. Additionally, he composed for a wide variety of ensemble types, including solo, chamber, orchestral, band, and choral music. Several of his works call for unconventional instruments such as the ondes Martinot, accordion, and harmonica. He also wrote several operas, for which he was also the librettist.

Sciortino served as director of the Conservatory of the Thirteenth Arrondissement of Paris (1979-1992) and later became a professor of composition and counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum in 1997. He was also active in the fields of non-traditional classical music, creating courses in contemporary music analysis and creating a multi-movement work for percussion ensemble, Les Cyclopes, which was informed by his studies of non-European music.

Biography

 * | Billaudot Biography
 * | Center for the Documentation of Contemporary Music Biography

Sheet Music

 * | Works which are published by Billaudot
 * | Works which are published by Choudens/Wise Music Classical

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