Claude Ballif, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude Ballif

French composer

Date of Birth: 22-May-1924

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 24-Jul-2004

Profession: composer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Claude Ballif (22 May 1924 in Paris – 24 July 2004 in Poissons) was a French composer. His music is known as a combination of tonality (in the sense of Bartók, for instance) and serialism - a system that he named metatonality. Claude Ballif was a committed pedagogue who taught composition and analysis at the Paris Conservatoire from 1971 to 1990.
Following this, he taught the same subjects at the Sevran conservatory.
His pupils included Raynald Arseneault, Nicolas Bacri, Gérard Buquet, Alexandre Desplat, Joseph-François Kremer, Philippe Manoury, Simon Bertrand, Serge Provost, and Mehmet Okonsar.