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Antoine Tisné

Antoine Tisné (29 July 1932 – 19 July 1998) was a French composer. Life Tisné was born in Lourdes. He began his musical studies at the Tarbes Conservatory. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in

Antoine Tisné (29 July 1932 – 19 July 1998) was a French composer. Life Tisné was born in Lourdes. He began his musical studies at the Tarbes Conservatory. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1952 in a music writing class. He was then a student of Georges Hugon in harmony and Noël Gallon and Jean Rivier in fugue and counterpoint, then had Darius Milhaud and André Jolivet as his teachers. He won a Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1962. He was principal music inspector at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs between 1967 and 1992, and then appointed music inspector in charge of the municipal conservatories of the City of Paris. Tisné composed more than three hundred works ranging from pieces for solo instrument to the symphony orchestra. His works were recorded in France by MFA, REM and Calliope. He was an Officer of the National Order of Merit, a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and was decorated with the Ordre des Palmes académiques. Among other awards, he has received the Copley Foundation Prize, the Helphen Prize, the Lili Boulanger Prize, the Koussevitsky Foundation Prize, the Casa de Velázquez Prize, the Grand Prix musical de la Ville de Paris, the Composers’ Prize

Era
Post-War
Lived
1932–1998
From
France
Born in
Lourdes · died Paris
Known as
composer

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.