Tristan Murail (b. Le Havre, France, 1947) is a French composer associated with the
spectral technique of composition (along with
Jonathan Harvey and
Gérard Grisey), this involving a special emphasis on timbre and overtones as a basis for harmonic structure (a.k.a.
spectralism) Following early studies in economics and classical and North African Arabic, Murail studied composition with
Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire from 1967 to 1972. In 1973 he was a founding member of the
Ensemble l'Itinéraire. He taught computer music at the Paris Conservatoire and composition at…
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