Claude Abravanel
Claude Abravanel (16 July 1924 – 14 December 2012) was a Swiss-Israeli pianist and composer of classical music.
Claude Abravanel
- Name
- Claude Abravanel
- Born
- 16 July 1924
- Birthplace
- Montreux, Switzerland
- Died
- 14 December 2012
- Occupation
- Pianist, composer
- Nationality
- Israel
- Fields
- classical
- Education
- École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot · Conservatoire de Musique
- Languages
- French · Hebrew
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Claude Abravanel (16 July 1924 – 14 December 2012) was a Swiss-Israeli pianist and composer of classical music.
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• Name — Claude Abravanel • Native Name — קלוד אברבנל • Born — 16 July 1924 • Birthplace — Montreux, Switzerland • Died — 14 December 2012 • Genre — Classical • Occupation — Pianist, composer • Instrument — Piano
Activities
Activities
He studied piano with Dinu Lipatti at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. He also studied composition with Arthur Honegger and piano with Yvonne Lefébure at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. A lecturer and director of the library at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Rubin Academy) until 1992, Abravanel became director of the Archives of Israeli Music at the Academy.
Personal history
Personal history
Abravanel was born in Montreux, Switzerland, and settled in Israel in 1951.
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• ©The National Library of Israel. All rights reserved retrieved 23/9/11 • book written by Abravanel retrieved 23/9/11
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. The record continues: claude Abravanel is recorded with the occupation archivist. It is also recorded that claude Abravanel is recorded with the occupation composer. Recorded with the occupation pianist. Institutional cataloguing adds that claude Abravanel is recorded with the occupation librarian. It is also recorded that claude Abravanel is recorded as a citizen of Israel. Recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that claude Abravanel was born on 16 July 1924. Institutional cataloguing adds that claude Abravanel died on 14 December 2012. Institutional cataloguing adds that claude Abravanel is classed in the genre classical music.
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Montreux.
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Jerusalem.
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Ensemble compositions Chamber Music
• Elegy,[for low Voice & Flute] • Four Songs [for Alto & Cello] • Hymn of Praise on a Yemenite Motive [for high voice & piano] • Les Amours de Ronsard, [for high voice & piano] • Prelude, Aria & Postlude for clarinet & piano • Supplication, Choreographical Poem [for flute & piano] • Three Psalms [for High Voice & Piano] • Tre Sonetti di Petrarca [for high voice & piano]
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