Marcel Frémiot


Marcel Frémiot was a French composer and musicologist.

Biography

Frémiot was a student at the conservatoire de Paris and a pupil of René Leibowitz. He was introduced to musicology by Vladimir Fedoroff.
He was artistic director or sound recordist in several record companies. From 1966, he was a professor of music history at the Marseille conservatory. In 1967–1968, he was a trainee of the Groupe de recherches musicales under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer.
In 1968, he was the professor of the first class of electroacoustic music at the Marseille conservatory, created on the initiative of its director Pierre Barbizet. In 1970, he founded the "Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille". In 1984, he created the Laboratoire Musique et informatique de Marseille.

Publications

Frémiot wrote about 120 works of instrumental music, electroacoustic, vocal, choral, incidental music or film.
He wrote numerous articles in the Encyclopédie de la Musique, Twenty Century Music, the Histoire de la musique, the Encyclopédie des musiques sacrées, Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The New Grove Dictionary.
He is the author of numerous analyzes of works and participated in the following collective works: