Henri Edmond Émile Challan (12 December 1910 in Asnières – 18 February 1977 in the

14th arrondissement of Paris The 14th arrondissement of Paris ( ), officially named ''arrondissement de l'Observatoire'' (; meaning "arrondissement of the Observatory", after the Paris Observatory), is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. It is situa ...

) was a French

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

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. He had a long association with the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

where he was both a student and a faculty member. He was a pupil of

Jean Gallon Jean Charles Claude Gallon (25 June 1878 - 23 June 1959) was a French composer, choir conductor, and music educator. His compositional output consists of six antiphons for strings and organ, one mass, one ballet, and several art songs. Biography ...

and

Henri Büsser Paul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, and conductor. Biography Büsser was born in Toulouse of partly German ancestry. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, where he studied ...

and was appointed a professor of harmony in 1936. That same year he won both the first and second prize at the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

.Biography of Henri Challan at Michel Baron - Cours d'écriture
/ref> One of his notable pupils was Japanese composer

Akira Miyoshi Akira Miyoshi (三善　晃; January 10, 1933 – 4 October 2013) was a Japanese composer. Biography Miyoshi was born in Suginami, Tokyo. He was a child prodigy on the piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied F ...

and French organist

Pierre Pincemaille Pierre-Marie François Pincemaille (8 December 1956 – 12 January 2018) was a French organist, improviser, and pedagogue. He was known for his organ improvisations, both in concert and on CD and for his recordings of Charles-Marie Widor's ...

. His twin brother,

René Challan René Louis Jean Challan (12 December 1910 – 4 August 1978) was a French classical composer, impresario and art director for French record labels. René Challan was composer Henri Challan's twin brother and harpist Annie Challan's father. Ca ...

(1910–1978) was also a composer.

Selected works

* Sonata for violin and piano (1936) * Suite for bassoon and piano (1937) * String Quartet * Quintet for bassoon and string quartet * Symphony (1942) * ''Scherzo'' for orchestra * ''Reflets'' for orchestra * Concerto for violin and orchestra(1942) * ''Variations'' for trumpet and piano (1959) * ''Diptyque'' for viola and piano (1961) * ''Ballade'' for cello and piano (1965) * ''Variations'' for horn and piano (1967) * ''Intermezzo'' for tuba or bass saxhorn and piano (1970) * ''Reflets'' for double bass and piano (1972) * ''Variation romantique'' for cello and piano (1975)

References

1910 births 1977 deaths Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni 20th-century French composers French male composers Prix de Rome for composition French music educators 20th-century French male musicians {{France-composer-stub