Jacques Charpentier

Jacques Georges Paul Charpentier was born on October 18, 1933, in Paris, France. He taught himself piano as a child and studied composition with Jeanine Rueff from 1950 to 1953. In the mid-1950s, he traveled to India to study traditional Hindustani music. Upon returning to France, Charpentier continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory under Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. He was appointed Principal Inspector of Music by André Malraux in 1966 and founded the Center for Gregorian Studies and Comparative Traditional Music at the Sénanque Abbey in 1975. Charpentier composed works such as "Symphonie brève" (1958) and Prélude pour la Genèse (1967), and received awards including the Koussewitski Prize in 1966 and the Dauberville Prize in 1987. He passed away on June 15, 2017, in Lézignan-Corbières, France.

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