Jacques Bondon

Jacques Bondon (full name Jacques Laurent Jules Désiré Bondon; 6 December 1927 – 2 April 2008) was a French composer. Life Bondon was born in Boulbon (Bouches-du-Rhône). He arrived in Paris aged nineteen to study music. He began studying the violin, learned harmony and counterpoint with Georges Dandelot and Charles Koechlin and composition with Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1962, he founded the Orchestre de Chambre de Musique Contemporaine (O.C.M.C.), which became the Ensemble Moderne de Paris (E.M.P.) six years later. In 1974, he was appointed member of the National Commission for Popular Music at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Since 1981, he has been Director of the Conservatoire municipal de musique of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He died in Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). on 2 April 2008 at age 80. Works Instrumental and orchestral music * Essai pour un paysage lunaire, for chamber orchestra (1951) * Sonatine d’été, for violin and piano (1953) * La Coupole, Tableaux fantastiques d’un monde étrange, for orchestra (1954) * Le Taillis ensorcelé, for double string orchestra, brass and percussion (1954) * Concerto pour Martenot (1955) * Les I