French music mourns leading modernist
mainThe death has been announced of Claude Samuel, former director of music at French Radio and chief enthusiast for the music of Olivier Messaien and Pierre Boulez. He published books of conversations with both composers.
A dentist by training, endowed with great charms, Samuel worked the French system like a virtuoso, drawing subsidy for a contemporary piano competition, a cello contest named after Rostropovich and others named after Maurice André and Jean-Pierre Rampal.
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