Édith Lejet

Édith Lejet (19 July 1941 – 15 July 2024) was a French composer and music educator. Biography Born in Paris, Lejet was the youngest of three children in a family with an engineer father. Lejet studied with Marcel Beaufils (aesthetics), Henri Challan (harmony), Marcel Bitsch (counterpoint and fugue), Jean Rivier and Andre Jolivet (composition) at the Paris Conservatory. She was in residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid from 1968 to 1970. Lejet taught harmony at the Sorbonne from 1970 to 1972, and subsequently became professor at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris. In 2004, Lejet was appointed professor of composition at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot. Lejet died on 15 July 2024, at the age of 82. Works Solo instrument * Cinq pièces brèves, for piano (1965), unpublished, 7’ * Trois eaux-fortes, for piano (1990–1992), Amphion, 10’ * Fleurs d’opale, for piano (1997), Lemoine, 6’ * Triptyque, for organ (1979), Lemoine, 18’ * Ave Maria, for organ (1988), J.M. Fuzeau, 3'21 * Métamorphoses, for harp (1981), Transatlantiques, 4’ * De lumière et de cieux embrasés, for harp (2010), Lemoine, 5’ * Deux soliloques, for horn (1991), Amphion, 6’ * Volu