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Christian Eloy
Biography	Christian Eloy (*1945) is a french composer that studied Flute and Composition at the National Conservatory and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. After being a flautist in an orchestra for five years in Paris, he became director of a Conservatory for seven years. Eloy learned ethnomusicology in Dublin and electroacoustic music in Paris with Ivo Malec, Guy Reibel, François Bayle at the Groupe de recherches musicales and Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. He was professor in the Electroacoustic Composition Department at the Bordeaux Conservatory for 24 years, at the Groupe de recherches musicales in Paris for 17 years and at the University of Bordeaux and the Sorbonne for ten years. He was co-founder and artistic director of the Studio de création et de recherche en informatique et musiques expérimentales at the University of Bordeaux for 12 years. In 2014, he co-founded the International Composition Competition «petites formes» between Taiwan, Japan and France. Eloy has composed more than 50 works of instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, pedagogical music, operas for children and was commissioned by the State and Radio France. He has also received several awards such as the Prix EU Poesie et Musique and the François de Roubaix prize. His scores have been published in Lemoine, Billaudot, Combre, Jobert, Fuzeau, Babel Score. Eloy has also considerable publications in PUF (France), Johnston Ed. (Irlande), MIT press (United States), Le mensuel littéraire et poétique (Belgium) and Confluences (France). ABOUT Eloy Christian: «Eneyida» Leap into the future would be the end of this war as soon as possible. This piece has been written as a tribute to the courage of the people of Ukraine in the face of the suffering and martyrdom they have been victims of during this month of February 2022. The title “Eneyida” is intended to be a reference to the eponymous burlesque poem written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky in 1798, who is considered to be the founder of literature in the Ukrainian language of. This poem is considered to be the first literary work published entirely in the modern Ukrainian language. Although Ukrainian is an everyday language for millions of people in Ukraine, its use in literature has been officially discouraged in the area controlled by Imperial Russia. Eneyida is a parody of Virgil’s Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky has transformed the heroes of Troy into Zaporozhsky Cossacks. The critics think that it was created in the light of the destruction of the Zaporozhsky Hetmanate ordered by Catherine the Great. The poem was written during the development of romanticism and nationalism in Europe. At the time, some of the Ukrainian elite were overcome by nostalgia for the Cossack state, eliminated by Russia in 1775–1786. The first three parts of the poem were published in 1798 in Saint Petersburg, without the author’s knowledge. The full “Eneyida” poem was published after the death of Kotlyarevsky in 1842, and would only be translated in 1933 in the American journal Ukrainian Weekly.
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Christian Eloy

Biography

Christian Eloy (*1945) is a french composer that studied Flute and Composition at the National Conservatory and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. After being a flautist in an orchestra for five years in Paris, he became director of a Conservatory for seven years. Eloy learned ethnomusicology in Dublin and electroacoustic music in Paris with Ivo Malec, Guy Reibel, François Bayle at the Groupe de recherches musicales and Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique. He was professor in the Electroacoustic Composition Department at the Bordeaux Conservatory for 24 years, at the Groupe de recherches musicales in Paris for 17 years and at the University of Bordeaux and the Sorbonne for ten years. He was co-founder and artistic director of the Studio de création et de recherche en informatique et musiques expérimentales at the University of Bordeaux for 12 years. In 2014, he co-founded the International Composition Competition «petites formes» between Taiwan, Japan and France.
Eloy has composed more than 50 works of instrumental, vocal, electroacoustic, pedagogical music, operas for children and was commissioned by the State and Radio France. He has also received several awards such as the Prix EU Poesie et Musique and the François de Roubaix prize. His scores have been published in Lemoine, Billaudot, Combre, Jobert, Fuzeau, Babel Score. Eloy has also considerable publications in PUF (France), Johnston Ed. (Irlande), MIT press (United States), Le mensuel littéraire et poétique (Belgium) and Confluences (France).

ABOUT Eloy Christian: «Eneyida»

Leap into the future would be the end of this war as soon as possible. This piece has been written as a tribute to the courage of the people of Ukraine in the face of the suffering and martyrdom they have been victims of during this month of February 2022.
The title “Eneyida” is intended to be a reference to the eponymous burlesque poem written by Ivan Kotlyarevsky in 1798, who is considered to be the founder of literature in the Ukrainian language of.
This poem is considered to be the first literary work published entirely in the modern Ukrainian language. Although Ukrainian is an everyday language for millions of people in Ukraine, its use in literature has been officially discouraged in the area controlled by Imperial Russia.
Eneyida is a parody of Virgil’s Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky has transformed the heroes of Troy into Zaporozhsky Cossacks. The critics think that it was created in the light of the destruction of the Zaporozhsky Hetmanate ordered by Catherine the Great. The poem was written during the development of romanticism and nationalism in Europe. At the time, some of the Ukrainian elite were overcome by nostalgia for the Cossack state, eliminated by Russia in 1775–1786.
The first three parts of the poem were published in 1798 in Saint Petersburg, without the author’s knowledge. The full “Eneyida” poem was published after the death of Kotlyarevsky in 1842, and would only be translated in 1933 in the American journal Ukrainian Weekly.

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