What is Renaud Gagneux?
[[File:Renaud Gagneux.jpg|thumb|Renaud Gagneux]] '''Renaud Gagneux''' (15 May 1947 – 24 January 2018) was a French [[composer]]. He was born in [[Paris]]. Gagneux studied piano with [[Alfred Cortot]] and composition with [[Henri Dutilleux]] at the École Normale in Paris. In 1966 he went to [[Cologne]] to study composition with [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], then with [[André Jolivet]] and [[Olivier Messiaen]] at the [[Conservatoire de Paris]]. In 1972 he joined the [[Groupe de Recherches Musicales]] de l'[[ORTF]]. His many prizes include the Sacem Grand Prix for chamber music (1977), the Prix Georges Enesco (1983), the Prize for New Talent from the SACD (1989), the Composers' Prize of the Sacem (1990), and the SACEM Grand Prix 1993 for his works overall. Gagneux died in Paris on 24 January 2018 of [[ALS]]-related complications at the age of 70.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.francemusique.fr/actualite-musicale/disparition-du-compositeur-renaud-gagneux-58562|title=Disparition du compositeur Renaud Gagneux|first=Sofia|last=Anastasio|date=25 January 2018|website=France Musique}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.mnl-paris.com/compositeurs2/gagneuxrenaud/gagneuxrenaud.html Composer website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918145313/http://www.mnl-paris.com/compositeurs2/gagneuxrenaud/gagneuxrenaud.html |date=2009-09-18 }} *[http://www.requiemsurvey.org/composers.php?id=323 Details on Requiem] {{DEFAULTSORT:Gagneux, Renaud}} [[Category:1947 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:21st-century French composers]] [[Category:Deaths from motor neurone disease]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in France]] [[Category:20th-century French composers]] [[Category:Writers from Paris]] {{bio-stub}}