Charles Chaynes

Charles Chaynes studied at Conservatoire de Paris and Toulouse Regional Conservatory. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is music. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, Officer of the National Order of Merit, Officer of the Legion of Honour and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Chaynes was born in Toulouse in 1925. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier. In 1951 he won the Prix de Rome with the cantata Et l'homme se vit les portes rouvrir. During his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome he wrote the First Concerto for String Orchestra and the Ode for a Tragic Death. In 1956 he became a producer at the Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (RTF). In 1964 he succeeded Marius Constant as head of the channel France Musique. From 1975 to 1990 he headed the service de la création musicale at Radio France. In addition to several operas, one symphony and chamber works Chaynes composed numerous concertos, etc. for trumpet, violin, piano and organ, and two orchestral concerts. In 1966 he composed a concerto for organ, string orchestra, timpani and percussion for Marie-Claire Alain. His Piano Concerto was premiered in 1967 by Yvonne Loriod, the wife of Olivier Messiaen. He died on 24 June 2016 in Saint-Mandé at the age of 90.

• Symphony (1955) • Concerto for organ, string orchestra, timpani and percussion (1966) • Piano Concerto (1966) • Alternances for viola and piano (1966) • Quatre Poèmes de Sappho (1968) • Visions Concertantes for guitar and 12 strings (1979)