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Pierre Villette

*1926 FR
Composer of Classical

Pierre Villette (7 February 1926 – 6 March 1998) was a French composer of choral and instrumental music.Villette was born into a musical family in 1926 at Duclair, Normandy. He studied with Maurice Duruflé before attending the Paris Conservatoire. Pierre Boulez was a fellow student but their careers followed very different paths. In 1957 Villette was appointed director of the Conservatoire in Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region. He was dogged by ill health and had a lung removed while still in his twenties. His bad health forced him to move from mountainous Besançon to a warmer climate, and he became director of the Academy at Aix en Provence in 1967. He held this position until he retired in 1987, and he continued to live in Provence until his death in 1998.

     
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Hymne a la vierge on Christmas Carols with The King's Singers by The King's Singers
Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24 on Villette: Choral Music by Pierre Villette, The Holst Singers & Stephen Layton
O magnum misterium, Op. 53 on Villette: Choral Music by Pierre Villette, The Holst Singers & Stephen Layton
Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24 on Innocence by Echo Vocal Ensemble & Sarah Latto
O quam amabilis es, Op. 71 on Villette: Choral Music by Pierre Villette, The Holst Singers & Stephen Layton
Panis angelicus, Op. 80 on Villette: Choral Music by Pierre Villette, The Holst Singers & Stephen Layton
Hymne a la Vierge, Op. 24 on Hail! Queen of Heaven - Music in Honour of the Virgin Mary by The Cambridge Singers & John Rutter
Hymne à la vierge on Messiaen, Martin, Villette & de Leeuw by Netherlands Chamber Choir & Peter Dijkstra
Jesu, dulcis memoria, Op. 78 on Villette: Choral Music by Pierre Villette, The Holst Singers & Stephen Layton
Notre Père d'Aix, Op. 75 on Villette: Choral Music by Pierre Villette, The Holst Singers & Stephen Layton

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
All Shall Be WellHenryk Górecki, Knut Nystedt, Gustav Holst, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Roxanna Panufnik, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, John Tavener, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Pierre Villette, Exultate Singers, David Ogden, Richard May2012Album
Requiem / MotetsNancy Argenta, Simon Keenlyside, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, David Hill - Gabriel Fauré, Pierre Villette, Jean Roger-Ducasse2012Compil.
French Church Music Vol. 1César Franck, Francis Poulenc, Pierre Villette, Charles-Marie Widor - Choir Of Worcester Cathedral Directed By Donald Hunt1976Album
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