Jean Prodromidès, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French composer
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Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
About Jean Prodromidès
- Jean Prodromidès (3 July 1927 – 17 March 2016) was a French composer.
- He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1927 in a music-loving family.
- His father, of Greek origin, had a pianola by which he became familiar with works of Beethoven and Wagner.
- He was a pupil of René Leibowitz, who introduced him to dodecaphonic and serial composition.
- Together with other Leibowitz pupils, Serge Nigg, Antoine Duhamel and André Casanova, he gave the first performance of Leibowitz's Explications des Metaphors, Op.
- 15, in Paris in 1948.Prodromidès composed for films such as Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre and Danton.
- Prodromidés was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1990 to Henry Sauguet's seat; Prodromidès was also president of the Academy and the Institut de France in 2005.
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