Claude Ballif, heads and shoulder portrait, facing forward, Paris France, 1973

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Charles Amirkhanian Collection ➔ Claude Ballif, heads and shoulder portrait, facing forward, Paris France, 1973

Still image

Identifier
IM.CA.PC.0032.002
Dates
1973 | created
Work Type
Photographic print;Photographic positive (from negative)
Image Class
Composer & Performer Portraits
Image Series
Claude Ballif & Ivan Wyschnegradsky in Paris (1973)
Description
Claude Ballif on a balcony at home in Paris, in 1973. Ballif wrote music of enormous strength and clarity. Like his compatriot Messiaen, his music is the result of his deep involvement in Catholicism. Little known in the United States, Ballif had produced a highly original and very unified series of works dating back to the mid-1950s. He was a professor of music at the Reims Conservatory and the product of the exciting and turbulent post World War II years of the Western avant-garde which saw the rise of such musical metaphysicians as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. But Ballif’s vision was a wide one, and he has shown himself open to a variety of influences stemming from his contact with such widely disparate musicians as John Cage, Boris Blacher, and the quarter-tone composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky, who had worked with Ballif on microtonal theory.
Genres & Subjects
Portrait photographs--1970-1980
Men
Composers
Image Ownership
Charles Amirkhanian
Photo Credits
Charles Amirkhankian
Related place
Paris (France) (was created at)
Related Entities
Amirkhanian, Charles
Ballif, Claude, 1924-2004