 at the Conservatoire de Paris.In the competition for the Prix de Rome in 1957 and 1958 he won a second prize each and in 1959 the "Premier Grand Prix" with the cantata "Dans les Jardins d’Armide" after Torquato Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered".After the four-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome, he worked for nine years at the Comédie-Française, first as "factotum musical", later as musical director.