
Printed version
TP334 Score and parts
CHF 29.00

Jean-François Michel (*1957)
Jean-François Michel, born in Switzerland in 1957 into a family of musicians, studied from 1965 to 1976 at the Fribourg Conservatoire in (Switzerland). In 1975 he was awarded the Bronze Medal at the International Music Competition in Geneva and, a year later, he was appointed Principal Trumpet of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Germany) where he remained until 1986 when he was appointed...
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About Choral et Toccata
A perspective of infinity
The Chorale (lento espressivo) is reminiscent of the subtle and haunting polyphony of the Renaissance in which sombre phrases slowly overlap and are heard in a perspective of infinity. The fast and spectacular Toccata is a course of gripping rhythmical, technical and musical virtuosity.
Product details
- Instrumentation
- 5 trumpets and bass trumpet (or euphonium)
- Composed
- 1999
- Genre
- contemporary
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Editions Bim
- Movements
- I. Choral (3')
II. Toccata (3')