1 Quotes & Sayings By Claude Beccai

Claude Beccai was born in Toulon, France, in 1908. He started to learn the piano at the age of four, and after twelve years of study he was awarded a diploma from the Paris Conservatory. Beccai then went to London to study composition with the great English pianist Cyril Smith. During his studies he also took lessons with the renowned pianist-composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, who had won a prize at the 1903 International Competition for Pianoforte-Composition in Moscow.