Jean-Michel DamaseJean-Michel Damase (born 27 January 1928 in Bordeaux

Bordeaux

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, France

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) is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

, conductor

Conducting

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 and composer

Composer

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 of classical music

Classical music

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.

Damase was studying with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau

Marcel Samuel-Rousseau

Marcel Samuel-Rousseau was a French composer, organist, and opera director. He studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1905. He was the organist at Saint-Séverin from 1919–1922 and president of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique...

 at age five and composing by age nine. He was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris

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 in 1940, studying with Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

 for piano, and won first prize for piano in 1943, afterwards studying with Henri Büsser

Henri Büsser

Henri Büsser was a French classical composer, organist, and conductor.- Biography :Paul-Henri Büsser was born in Toulouse, of partly Teutonic ancestry. He entered the Conservatoire in Paris in 1889; there he studied organ with César Franck and composition with Ernest Guiraud...

, Marcel Dupré

Marcel Dupré

Marcel Dupré , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Marcel Dupré was born in Rouen . Born into a musical family, he was a child prodigy. His father Albert Dupré was organist in Rouen and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when...

 and Claude Delvincourt

Claude Delvincourt

Claude Delvincourt was a French pianist and composer of classical music.-Biography:Delvincourt was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Delvincourt and Marguerite Fourès....

 for composition - winning his first prize for composition in 1947, in which year he won the Grand Prix de Rome  (In this year he wrote his trio for flute, viola and harp which has several times been recorded.)

He made the first complete recording of Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...

's nocturnes and barcaroles, for which he received the Grand Prix du Disque.

Selected compositions

Orchestral

• Symphony (1952)
• Serenade for strings (1959)

Orchestrations

• La fille mal gardée
  La Fille Mal Gardée
  La Fille mal gardée is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère...
  
  (1985) (of Peter Hertel's 1864 ballet score)

Concertante

• Concerto for harpsichord or harp and small orchestra (1984)
• Concerto for viola, harp and string orchestra (1990)

Chamber music

• Trio for flute, cello and harp (1947)
• Trio for flute, viola and harp (1947)
• Trio for flute, hautbois and piano (1962)
• Quintet for flute, harp and string trio, op. 2 (1948)
• Aria for cello (or viola, or alto saxophone) and piano, op. 7 (1949)
• Sonate en concert for flute, piano and cello (ad libitum), op. 17 (1952)
• String Trio (1965)
• Sonata for clarinet and harp (1984)
• Vacances for alto saxophone and piano (1990)
• Intermède for viola and piano (1990)
• Épigraphe for viola and piano (1991)
• Ostinato for viola and piano (1991)
• Sonata for cello and harp (2002)
• Hallucinations for viola and harp

Operas

• La tendre Eleonore (1958)
• Colombe (premiered 1961 Bordeaux)
• Eugène le mystérieux (1963)
• Le matin de Faust (1965)
• Madame de ... (1969)
• Euridice (premiered 1972 Bordeaux)
• L'héritière (1974)

Film scores

• Term of Trial
  Term of Trial
  Term of Trial is a 1962 British drama film made by Romulus Films Ltd. and distributed by Warner-Pathé. It was written and directed by Peter Glenville and produced by James Woolf with James H. Ware as associate producer from a screenplay based on the novel of the same name by James Barlow...
  
  (1962)

Sources

• Greene, David Mason (1985). . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. page 1512. ISBN 0385142781.