Claude Almand


Claude Marion Almand was a musician and professor of music at several American universities. Almand was a professor at the University of Louisville from 1948 to 1953. In 1953, he was appointed the dean of Stetson University's School of Music.

Early life and education

Almand was born on May 31, 1915 in Winsboro, Louisiana to Claude F. Almand and Pearl Harrison. He attended the Sherwood School of Music in Chicago from 1934 to 1935. He received a Masters in Music degree from Louisiana State University in 1938. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Rochester in 1940.

Personal life

On July 27, 1950, he married Lenoir Patton.

Career

Almand also served for a time on the faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in their music division.

Selected works

Almand died on September 12, 1957.
Lenoir Patton Almand, who was also an accomplished musician and Stetson University faculty member, made gifts during her lifetime and an estate gift to endow the Almand Chair of Composition in Stetson's School of Music in Claude Almand's honor.