biography
pronunciation:
[meeoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1974)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Aix-en-Provence, SE France. He studied under Widor and d'Indy at the Paris Conservatoire. While attached to the French Embassy at Rio de Janeiro (1917–18), he met the playwright Paul Claudel, with whom he frequently collaborated, as on the opera Christopher Columbus. Returning to France, he was for a while a member of Les Six. He was professor of music at Mills College, California (1940–7), and taught at the Paris Conservatoire from 1947. His ballets include the jazz ballet La Création du monde (1923, The Creation of the World), and he composed several operas, much incidental music for plays, symphonies, and orchestral, choral, and chamber works. |
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