Benjamin Attahir (born 25 February 1989 in Toulouse) is a French composer, violinist and conductor. He studied at , at the under

Édith Canat de Chizy Edith Canat de Chizy (born 26 March 1950) is a French composer, born in Lyon and now based in Paris. She was the first female composer to be elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. Life and career Edith Canat de Chizy was born in Lyon, ...

and at the

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itself. He studied the

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under Ami Flammer. Attahir made three short plays for

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, ''La Mort de Tintagiles'', ''Intérieur'' and ''Alladine et Palomides'', into an opera entitled ''Le Silence des ombres'', premiered at

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in Brussels in September 2019. On 21 February 2020,

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broadcast a concert including his ''Al Asr'' string quartet (2017), performed by the

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, recorded at Perth Concert Hall, Scotland in 2018. Attahir has also put to music W. B. Yeats's poem 'The song of wandering Aengus'.

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