Claude Ballif
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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