Claude Ballif
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Claude Ballif (22 May 1924 in Paris – 24 July 2004 in Poissons) was a French composer.
His music is known as a combination of tonality (in the sense of Bartók, for instance) and serialism - a system that he named metatonality.
Claude Ballif was a committed pedagogue who taught composition and analysis at the Paris Conservatoire from 1971 to 1990. Following this, he taught the same subjects at the Sevran conservatory. His pupils included Raynald Arseneault, Nicolas Bacri, Gérard Buquet, Alexandre Desplat, Joseph-François Kremer, Philippe Manoury, Simon Bertrand, Serge Provost, and Mehmet Okonsar.
External links
- (in French) Detailed biography on Ircam site
Categories:
- 1924 births
- 2004 deaths
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Commanders of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française
- Conservatoire de Bordeaux alumni
- Conservatoire de Paris alumni
- Academics of the Conservatoire de Paris
- Musicians from Paris
- Microtonality
- French classical composers
- French male classical composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century French composers
- 20th-century French male musicians
- French composer stubs