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Jean-Michel Damase

Jean-Michel Damase (; 27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Career Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was

Jean-Michel Damase (; 27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Career Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was studying piano and solfège with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at the age of five and composing by age nine. His first work (at the age of nine) was a setting of some poems by Colette, whom he had met at a Parisian salon. In the same year, he won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Et la belle se réveilla. Selected compositions ;Orchestral *Symphony (1952) *Serenade for strings (1959) *Trio for flute, viola and harp (1947) *Colombe (1958, premiered 1961 Bordeaux, libretto Jean Anouilh with Maria Murano) References Sources *Greene, David Mason (1985). . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. page 1512. . *

Era
Post-War
Lived
1928–2013
From
France
Born in
Bordeaux · died 16th arrondissement of Paris
Known as
composer, pianist, conductor, choreographer
Instruments
piano
Genres
opera

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.