Claire Schapira facts for kids
Claire Schapira is a talented French musician born in Paris on January 19, 1946. She is known for her skills as a harpsichordist, a pianist, and a composer. This means she plays different musical instruments and also creates her own music.
Claire Schapira studied music at the Schola Cantorum de Paris. There, she learned to play the piano and the harpsichord. She also studied musical theater and how to compose music.
After her studies, Claire Schapira lived at the Villa Medici in Rome. This is a special place where artists can live and work. She also completed an internship at Ircam, which is a famous center for music and sound research in Paris.
In 1985, the French Ministry of Culture gave her a special grant. This money helped her write an opera called La Partition de sable. An opera is a play where most of the words are sung, usually with an orchestra. Claire Schapira's music has been performed all around the world.
Musical Works
Claire Schapira has composed many different pieces of music. Here are some of her well-known works:
- La Partition de sable, an opera
- Trames
- Vagues
- Ténèbres
- Fragments insolites
- Le Ciel de mes yeux en pleurs
- Acheminement
- Mémorial
- Requiem pour la paix (a special musical piece for peace, created for Radio France)
- La Chaîne (1981)
- Chant cousu (1985)
- Rumeur (1986)
- Regards (performed by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra)
- In pace
- Interjections II (performed at the Festival de Paris)
- Contes (performed at the Salzburg Festival)
- Hymne à la paix
- Antigone
- Sans craindre le vertige et le vent'
- Chants mêlés
- Sysiphe
- Cassandre
- Stabat Mater (created with support from the Beaumarchais Foundation)
- L'Ombre de Cassandre, an opera
