Jean-Michel Damase
Jean-Michel Damase was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music.
Damase was born in Bordeaux, the son of harpist Micheline Kahn. He was studying with Marcel Samuel-Rousseau at the age of five and composing by age nine. He was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 1940, studying with Alfred Cortot for piano, and won first prize for piano in 1943, afterwards studying with Henri Büsser, Marcel Dupré and Claude Delvincourt for composition – winning his first prize for composition in 1947, in which year he won the Grand Prix de Rome
He made the first complete recording of Gabriel Fauré's nocturnes and barcarolles, for which he received the Grand Prix du Disque.;Orchestral
;Orchestrations
;Concertante
;Chamber music
- Trio for flute, cello and harp
- Trio for flute, viola and harp
- Quintet for flute, harp and string trio, op. 2
- Aria for cello and piano, op. 7
- 17 variations for wind quintet, op. 22
- Sonate en concert for flute, piano and cello, op. 17
- Trio for flute, oboe and piano
- String Trio
- Sonata for clarinet and harp
- Vacances for alto saxophone and piano
- Intermède for viola and piano
- Épigraphe for viola and piano
- Ostinato for viola and piano
- Trio for oboe, horn, and piano
- Trio for two flutes and piano
- Sonata for cello and harp
- Hallucinations for viola and harp
- Berceuse for horn and piano
- Pavane variée for horn and piano
;Operas
- La tendre Eleonore
- Colombe
- Eugène le mystérieux
- Le matin de Faust
- Madame de...
- Euridice
- L'héritière
;Film scores
