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Claire Schapira (born 19 January 1946 in Paris) is a French harpsichordist, pianist and composer.

He studied piano, harpsichord, musical theater and composition, graduating from the Schola Cantorum de Paris. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome and served an internship at Ircam. She received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture in 1985 to write the opera La Partition de sable. Her work has been performed internationally.

Works

Selected works include:

  • La Partition de sable, opera
  • Trames
  • Vagues
  • Ténèbres
  • Fragments insolites
  • Le Ciel de mes yeux en pleurs
  • Acheminement
  • Mémorial
  • Requiem pour la paix (commissioned by Radio France)
  • La Chaîne (1981)
  • Chant cousu (1985)
  • Rumeur (1986)
  • Regards (RAI National Symphony Orchestra)
  • In pace
  • Interjections II (Festival de Paris)
  • Contes (Musica and the Salzburg Festival)
  • Hymne à la paix
  • Antigone
  • Sans craindre le vertige et le vent'
  • Chants mêlés
  • Sysiphe
  • Cassandre
  • Stabat Mater (with the support of the Beaumarchais Foundation)
  • L'Ombre de Cassandre, opera
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