Claude Ballif
French composer
Died when: 80 years 63 days (962 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Claude Ballif (22 May 1924 – 24 July 2004) was a French composer, writer, and pedagogue.He worked at a number of institutions throughout more than 40 years of teaching, one of which he had attended as a student.
Among his pupils were Raynald Arseneault, Nicolas Bacri, Gérard Buquet, Joseph-François Kremer, Philippe Manoury, Serge Provost, Mehmet Okonsar, Simon Bertrand, Alexandre Desplat, and Claude Abromont.
He was described as a French modernist and as "the product of the exciting and turbulent post World War II years of the Western avant-garde" alongside composers Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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