Martin

Japanese: マルタン

Swiss composer, pianist and harpsichordist. Born in Geneva as the son of a pastor, he was devoted to JS Bach as a boy. He studied piano and composition there. He lived in Zurich, Rome and Paris from 1918 to 1925, and then settled in his birthplace in 1926, where he founded the Chamber Music Society and worked as a pianist and harpsichordist. He also became acquainted with Jacques Dalcroze, and from 1928 he taught improvisation and rhythm theory at the institute for over ten years. He is known for his unique style that blends tonality and twelve-tone technique (twelve-tone music), and he has left behind many masterpieces that combine a clear lyricism with a neat, neoclassical sense of form. His works include the Petite Sinfonia Concertante for harp, harpsichord, piano and two string orchestras (1944-1945, revised in 1946), the oratorios Die Enchantment (1938-1941) and Golgotha (1945-1948), the Violin Concerto (1951), the Harpsichord Concerto (1952), and the Requiem for voice and orchestra (1971-1972). →Harpsichord→Related topics Concerto Grosso | Christian music | Stockhausen | Fournier

Martin

French steel engineer. He worked in his father's steelworks, but in 1864 he succeeded in making steel using a Siemens-type regenerative reverberatory furnace (open hearth), which came to be known as the Siemens-Martin furnace. He was poor in his later years, but received pensions from steelmakers all over Europe.
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Japanese:

スイスの作曲家，ピアノ奏者，ハープシコード奏者。牧師の息子としてジュネーブに生まれ，少年時代にJ.S.バッハに傾倒。同地でピアノや作曲を学ぶ。1918年―1925年チューリヒ，ローマ，パリで暮らしたのち1926年生地に落ち着き，室内音楽協会を設立してピアノおよびハープシコード奏者として活動。またジャック・ダルクローズと知り合い，1928年から10年余その研究所で即興演奏法やリズム理論を講じた。調性と12音技法（十二音音楽）を溶け合わせた特有のスタイルで知られ，新古典主義的な整然とした形式感の中に澄んだ抒情性をたたえた名作を数多く残している。作品に，ハープ，ハープシコード，ピアノと２つの弦楽オーケストラのための《小協奏交響曲》（1944年−1945年，改訂1946年），オラトリオ《魔法の酒》（1938年−1941年），同《ゴルゴタ》（1945年−1948年），《バイオリン協奏曲》（1951年），《ハープシコード協奏曲》（1952年），声と管弦楽のための《レクイエム》（1971年−1972年）などがある。→ハープシコード
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