Henri Scolari was born in Geneva and instructed in piano, music theory and composition under Louis Piantoni and conducting under Samuel Baud-Bovy. He attended the master classes of Georges Migot, Arthur Honegger and René Leibowitz in Paris and attended a seminar by Henri Pousseur.
From 1962 until 1986 he was musical director, responsible for the programme, and later producer of 'Radio-Télévision Suisse Romande' in the Lausanne studios. From 1980 until 1989 he was president of the Lausanne section of the 'Societé Internationale de Musique Contemporaine' (International Society for Contemporary Music). He has been an expert at Lausanne Conservatory since 1988. His work catalogue was published in 1993 by the canton and University of Lausanne (BCU).
Work list
Danse de là-bas (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 1' 30" Manuscript
Sur un Christ d'Allain (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 4' 30" Manuscript
Trio (1943)
Instrumentation: for flute clarinet and alto saxophone
Duration: 10' 00" Manuscript
Lilliputienne (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: ' 45" Manuscript
Ode funèbre (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano and orchestra (2.2.2.1/2.3.3.0/timp.bdr/str)
Duration: 6' 00" Manuscript
Sérénade (1943)
Instrumentation: for two flutes, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, violin and double bass
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Aubade (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 1' 30" Manuscript
Esprit d'un étang (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 2' 15" Manuscript
Combat moral (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Flânerie dans la vielle ville (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Le Goltva de Tchekhov (1943)
Evocation
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 6' 00" Manuscript
Instantanés (1943)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 1' 30" Manuscript
Hippolyte (1943-1944)
Ballet in two acts and four scenes after Euripides
Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.3.3.0/perc/2hp ad lib/str)
Duration: 1h 45' 00" Manuscript
Carrefour (1944)
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 7' 00" Manuscript
Hommage à René Schenker (1944)
Instrumentation: for viola solo
Duration: 1' 10" Manuscript
Horse-Power (1944)
Boogie woogie
Instrumentation: for piano
Duration: 2' 00" Manuscript
Mouvement symphonique (1945)
Instrumentation: for large orchestra (pic.2.2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn/6.4.3.1/3perc/str)
Duration: 10' 00" Manuscript
Petit concert (1945)
Instrumentation: for string quartet
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Police-secours (1946)
Instrumentation: for voice and piano
Texts: Albert Sarrou
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
La moucharde ou la leçon de grammaire (1946)
Choreographic fantasy
Instrumentation: for piano
To a theory by Ulysse Bolle.
Duration: 10' 00" Manuscript
Episode (1946)
Melody to a poem by Paul Valery
Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Le bois amical (1946)
Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano
Texts: Paul Valéry
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Et vive la vie! (1946)
Chanson to a text by Albert Sarrou
Instrumentation: for voice and piano
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Notre ville (1946)
Instrumentation: for voice and piano
Texts: Albert Sarrou
Duration: 2' 00" Manuscript
Concert pour les fiançailles (1946-1947)
Instrumentation: for piano and orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.0.0/timp/perc)
Duration: 12' 00" Manuscript
Rendez-vous d'automne (1947)
Instrumentation: for voice and piano
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Le Christ voilé (1948)
Catata
Instrumentation: for baritone and instruments (1(pic).1(ca).1(bcl).1/hn/hp/vn.va.vc(db ad lib.))
Texts: Patrice de la Tour du Pin
Fusion of a series of twelve tones with a constant reference to tonality.
Very expressive French poetry.
Scolari, Henri: Du Satie à Genève, mais oui, mon cher, on joue du Satie à Genève, in: Genève Quinzaine (juillet 1949) 3 (1949), S. 4
Scolari, Henri: Schoenberg toujours lui-même ou quelques mots sur une école qui fait parler d'elle, in: Genève Quinzaine (juin 1949) 1 (1949), S. 4-5
Scolari, Henri:Le Triton dénominateur formel du chromatisme intégral. Etude sur une technique de composition dodécaphonque, Ed. Raymond Illy, Genève 1950
Scolari, Henri: Une oeuvre genevoise à Paris ("Monades 2" de Jacques Guyonnet), in: La Suisse (22 déc 1960) (1960)
Scolari, Henri:Livre de séries. Inventaire didactique de séries de douze sons, Chez l'auteur, Lausanne 1974
Monnier, Verena: Henri Scolari (1923-2011), in: Dissonanz 117 (2012), S. 78 [Internet]
Matthey, Jean-Louis:Henri Scolari. Catalogue des Oeuvres, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Lausanne 1993
Desarzens, Victor: Huitième Diorama de la musique contemporaine, in: Radio-TV je vois tout (29.04.1971) 17 (1971)
Depoisier, Claude: Le concert du vendredi, in: Radio-TV je vois tout (nov. 1969) (1969)
Jaccard, Jean-Claude: A Crissier, l'Orchestre de Chambre brille dans un répertoire insolite, in: Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne (24.11.1969) (1969)
Depoisier, Claude: En création mondiale: Intégration d'Henri Scolari, in: Radio-TV je vois tout (mai 1968) (1968)
Jaton, Henri: 5e Diorama: Witold Lutoslawski et Henri Scolari à la SIMC, in: Tribune de Lausanne (20.05.1968) (1968)
Perrin, Jean: Un concert de la SIMC. Pour Scolari et Lutoslawski un OCL exemplaire, in: Gazette de Lausanne (mai 1968) (1968)
Depoisier, Claude: La musique contemporaine en Suisse, en bavardant avec Henri Scolari, in: Radio-TV je vois tout (16.10.1967) (1967)
Hugli, Pierre: Trois compositeurs lausannois et l'OCL sous la direction de Victor Desarzens, in: Gazette de Lausanne (19.08.1964) (1964)
Jaccard, Jean-Claude: Magnifique concert de l'Orchestre de Chambre, in: Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne (18.08.1964) (1964)
Jaton, Henri: Chronique musicale, quelques problèmes actuels, in: Tribune de Lausanne (3 juin 1962) (1962)
Guyonnet, Jacques: Henri Scolari, compositeur genevois, in: Tribune de Genève (janvier 1961) 12 (1961)