Dominique Probst
Dominique Probst (born 1954) is a French composer.[1]
The son of a noted playwright, Gisèle Casadesus, and an actor and director with the Comédie-Française, Lucien Probst, Dominique Probst won the First Prize for Percussion with the National Music Conservatory, Paris, in 1978. He has also been the timpanist of the Colonne Orchestra since 1973.[2]
In addition to performing as an instrumentalist and being a composer Probst gives instruction in percussion, chamber music, and musical education in various Parisian conservatories.
Foremost among his compositions is his opera Maximilian Kolbe, to a libretto by Eugène Ionesco, about the Polish priest who died to save a fellow inmate in Auschwitz. The opera was first performed in Rimini, Italy in 1988.
References[]
- ^ "Dominique Probst". IMDb.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- ^ "Dominique PROBST". Casadesus.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
External links[]
- Dominique Probst Mini-biography.
- The Cadesus Family Tree
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