Maurice Ohana

Maurice Ohana (died 1992) was a French composer born in Casablanca to a family of Spanish origin; his father came from Gibraltar. He started as a pianist, served in the British army during the Second World War and then settled in Paris. His music draws on Spanish traditions such as cante jondo, and from the Tombeau de Claude Debussy (1962) onward he used micro-intervals. Ohana studied piano with Lazare Lévy in Paris and Frank Marshall in Barcelona, counterpoint with Daniel-Lesur, and then studied with Alfredo Casella in Rome.