Claude Pascal (Paris, February 19, 1921 – Paris, February 28, 2017) was a French composer.

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, ''Dictionnaire de la musique: Tome 2, Les Hommes et leurs œuvres. L-Z.'' ed. Bordas 1979, p. 834. () After studying at the

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, he obtained the 1945 Premier

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for the cantata, ''La farce du contre Bandier''. After a brief period as conductor of the Opéra-Comique, Pascal became professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1952, a position he held until his retirement in 1987. From 1969 to 1979 he worked as a music critic for ''

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'', and from 1983 to 1991 he was an expert on copyright issues at the Paris Court of Appeals.Havard de La Montagne, Denis.
Claude Pascal
. Musica et Memoria (French text), accessed 4 May 2014. Pascal's extensive work as a composer includes practically every musical genre. The discography of his works consists of more than thirty CDs. The musical estate of Claude Pascal is archived at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Works

*''Quatuor à cordes'', 1943 *''Octuor'' for wind instruments, 1944 *''Sonatine'' for alto

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and

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

, 1947 *''1ère Sonate'' for

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

and piano, 1947 *''Air varié'' for contrabass and piano, 1950 *''Pop-corn'' for violin and piano, 1951 *''Toccata'' for piano, 1952 *''Pastorale héroïque'' for

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

and piano, 1952 *''Pièce'' for

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and piano, 1952 *''Sonatine'' for violin and piano, 1952 *''Impromptu'' for alto saxophone and piano, 1953 *''Improvisation en forme de canon'' for trombone and piano, 1958 *''Concerto'' for piano and chamber orchestra, 1958 *''Concerto'' for cello and orchestra, 1959 *''Musique pour harpe'', 1960 *''Quatuor de saxophones'', 1961 *''Ouverture pour un conte de fées'' for orchestra, 1961 *''2ème Sonate'' for violin and piano, 1963 *''Ut ou do'', 5 pieces for children's choir, 1963 *''Sonate'' for

horn Horn most often refers to: *Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound ** Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments *Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various ...

and piano, 1963 *''Trois Légendes'' for clarinet and piano, 1963 *''Six Pièces variées'' for flute and piano, 1965 *''Six Pièces variées'' for clarinet and piano, 1965 *''Six Pièces variées'' for

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and piano, 1965 *''Sonate en 6 minutes 30'' for

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, bass trombone, or

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and piano, 1966 *''Grave et Presto'' for cello and piano, 1966 *''Concerto'' for harp and orchestra, 1967 * Orchestration of

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(with

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), 1967 *''Suite'' for piano, 1970 *''Sonate'' for cello and piano, 1971 *''Quatre Etudes'' for piano, 1980 *''Triptyque ferroviaire'', 3 pieces for two-part children's choir, 1980 *''L'Invitation aux voyages'', 5 pieces for three-part choir, 1981 *''Portrait de l'oiseau-qui-n'existe-pas'', song for soprano and piano, 1981 *''Sonatine'' for piano, 1982 *''Suite française'' for cello solo, 1982 *''J'ai voulu te rejoindre'', song for soprano and piano, 1982 *''Elégie'' for organ, 1986 *''Danse des Lutins'' for flute and piano, 1986 *''Offertoire'' for organ, 1986 *''Carnet de notes'', 74 progressive pieces for piano, 1987 *''Sonate'' for violin solo, 1990 *''60 Petites Etudes'' for piano, 1991 *''Trois Inventions'' for flute quartet, 1991 *''Framboise et Amandine, les jumelles de l'espace'',

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for children, 1992 *''Piano-rétro'', 8 pieces for piano, 1992 *''Farfelettes'', 10 pieces for children's choir and one or two instruments, 1993 *''Paraphrase sur "The Entertainer"'' by Scott Joplin for clarinet or alto saxophone and piano, 1994 *''Quatre Farfelettes'' for voice and piano, 1998 *''Sonate'' for horn solo, 1997 *''Trio'' for soprano or tenor flutes, 1997 *''Concerto'' for flute and string orchestra, 1996 *''Trois Etudes-Caprices'' for piano four-hands, 1998 *''Partita'' for alto saxophone and piano, 1999 *''Scherzetto'' for saxophone quartet, 2002 *''Sonate'' for two flutes, 2002 *''Suite chorégraphique'', 5 pieces for saxophone quartet, 2003 *''Top-Model et Cie'', 3 songs for soprano and piano, 2003 *''Eléments de solfège'', 4 songs for voice and piano, 2003 *''Allegro, Choral et Fugato'' for horn quartet, 2004 *''Equinoxe'' for horn and piano, 2004 *''Notturno'' for violin and piano, 2005 *''Rituel tibétain'' for horn quartet, 2005 *''Sérénade'' for guitar, 2005 *''Concerto'' for alto saxophone and orchestra, 2006 *''Déjà 1 an !'', song for voice and piano, 2006 *''Atout Chœur'', 5 pieces for mixed choir and organ or piano, 2007 *''Entrée pour un mariage'', Paraphrase of the

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by Felix Mendelssohn for flute and organ, 2007

Bibliography

"Claude Pascal", in '' Sax, Mule & Co'',

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, H & D, 2004, .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pascal, Claude Musicians from Paris 1921 births 2017 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris 20th-century French composers French male composers French opera composers Prix de Rome for composition 20th-century French male musicians