Jean Barraqué

French author of chamber music; a modern of Messiaen; among the 1st serialists. His exclusive style mixed a wealthy impressionism with incredibly formal pointillism. The usage of jazz instrumentalists in traditional ensembles playing his serial music resulted in interpersonal stigmatization in the past due ’50s. The items …au del? du hasard and Chant après Chant (1966) for six percussionists, tone of voice, and piano had been inspired from the Loss of life of Virgil, by Hermann Broch. These items do not simply set the written text but reveal upon it, as demonstrated in “Struggling to develop or regress,” “Prior to the quotation,” and “On the thought without night time.”