Fifty years ago, on June 22, 1974, Darius Milhaud passed away in Geneva. He often referred to himself as “a Frenchman from Provence and, by religion, a Jew.”[1] Born in 1892 in Aix-en-Provence, southern France, Milhaud received his musical education at the Paris Conservatory and the Schola Cantorum. In 1916, he embarked on a journey to Brazil as the secretary of poet Paul Claudel († 1955)…
A Jewish Sacred Music Composer — By: OnePeterFive
