Claude Abravanel is pianist and composer of classical music

Classical period (music)

The dates of the Classical Period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1750 and 1830. However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or...

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activities

Studied piano with Dinu Lipatti

Dinu Lipatti

Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...

 at the Genevan Conservatory. He also studied composition with Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...

 and piano with Yvonne Lefébure

Yvonne Lefébure

Yvonne Lefébure was a French pianist.Born in Ermont, she studied with Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in piano and numerous other subjects. She soon appeared with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and the Orchestre des Concerts Colonne and in recital. She...

 at the Ecole Normales de Musique in Paris. A lecturer and director of the library at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance until 1992, Abravanel continued to directorship of the Archives of Israeli Music at the Rubin Academy located in Jerusalem.

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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See also

• Aria
  Aria
  An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...
  
  
• Chamber Music
  Chamber music
  Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
  
  
• Music of Israel
  Music of Israel
  The music of Israel is a combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For more than 100 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements that would define the emerging national spirit...
  
  
• Petrarca
  Petrarch
  Francesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
  
  
• Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard
  Pierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
  
  
• Yemenite
  Yemenite Jews
  Yemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen . Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet...
  
  

Additional reference material

©The National Library of Israel. All rights reserved retrieved 23/9/11

book written by Abravanel retrieved 23/9/11

External links

• israelcomposers
• jnul