Manfred Kelkel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Manfred Kelkel

French musicologist and composer

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1929

Place of Birth: Siersburg, Saarland, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1999

Profession: composer, musicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Manfred Kelkel (15 January 1929 in Siersburg in Saarland, then under French occupation – 18 April 1999 in Paris) was a 20th-century French musicologist and composer of contemporary music. A pupil of Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris, he got interested in the music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, whose latest works (from Prometheus: The Poem of Fire to Mysterium) influenced his own compositions.
His work on Scriabin and a certain esoteric aesthetic of music are authoritative.