Marius Constant
Marius Constant (1925-2004) was a French composer and conductor born in Bucharest. He settled in Paris in 1946, studied with Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger, and joined Pierre Schaeffer's musique concrète group. He is known for his ballets, for founding Ensemble Ars Nova in 1963 and for the music used in the opening titles of The Twilight Zone. Constant wrote ballet scores mostly for Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart, among them Cyrano de Bergerac (1959), Éloge de la folie (1966) and Paradis perdu (1967).
Clavecin 2000 (LP)
First edition of the 1970 album on Philips' silver covers essential "Prospective 21e Siècle" series with contemporary masterpieces for harpsichord composed by some of the most prominent avant-garde composers performed by specialist Elisabeth Chojnack…
Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Giacomo Manzoni, Luciano Berio, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle, Bruno Maderna, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Sylvano Bussotti, Mauricio Kagel, Gyorgy Ligeti, Niccolò Castiglioni, Boris Porena, John Cage, Marius Constant, Krzysztof Penderecki, Zbynek Vostrak, Edison Denisov, Erik Satie, Anton Webern
La musica moderna IV (16x10” binder)Amazing book-bound storage binder collecting 16 10" albums issued in the historical La Musica Moderna collection, without covers/magazines, published by Fratelli Fabbri in the late 1960's as a panorama of avant-garde music in the 20th century.
Eloge De La Folie (LP)
1967 Italian edition of Erato/Curci of the music for Roland Petit's ballet in collaboration with Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Martial Raysse.