Claude Abravanel
Claude Abravanel was a Swiss pianist and composer of classical music.Activities
He studied piano with Dinu Lipatti at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. He also studied composition with Arthur Honegger and piano with Yvonne Lefébure at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. A lecturer and director of the library at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance until 1992, Abravanel became director of the Archives of Israeli Music at the Academy.Ensemble compositions ''Chamber Music''
- Elegy,
- Four Songs
- Hymn of Praise on a Yemenite Motive
- Les Amours de Ronsard,
- Prelude, Aria & Postlude for clarinet & piano
- Supplication, Choreographical Poem
- Three Psalms
- Tre Sonetti di Petrarca
Abravanel was born in Montreux, Switzerland, and settled in Israel in 1951.- retrieved 23/9/11
- retrieved 23/9/11
