Claude Delvincourt
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Claude Delvincourt (January 12, 1888 - April 5, 1954) was a French pianist and composer of classical music.
[edit] Biography
Claude Delvincourt was born in Paris on January 12, 1888, the son of Pierre Delvincourt and Marguerite Fourès.
He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, first under Leon Boëllmann, then Henri Busser. He was also taught counterpoint and fugue by Georges Caussade and composition by Charles Marie Widor. He won the Prix de Rome in 1910 and 1913 (when he shared it with Lili Boulanger). He was later appointed Director of Conservatoire at Versailles in 1932 and Director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1940, following the resignation of Henri Rabaud. [1]
During the German occupation of France, Delvincourt applied the racial laws of the Vichy government to the Paris Conservatoire, excluding Jewish professors and students.[2]
He died on April 5, 1954 in a car accident on a road in Orbetello, in the Grosseto province of Italy
- Claud Delvincourt was listed in the International Music Score Library Project
[edit] References
- ^ Demuth, Norman (June 1954). "Claude Delvincourt". Musical Times 95 (1336): 330
- ^ Schnapper-Flender, Laure (July 1999). "La vie musicale sous l'Occupation". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire 63: 142
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