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- Charles Koechlin was born on November 27, 1867 in Paris, France. Charles was a composer, known for Radio (1937), Return to Life (1938) and La joie de vivre (1952). Charles died on December 31, 1950 in Rayol-Canadel, Var, France.
- Also music teacher and writer, his son Yves (1922-2011) physicist was the husband of biologist Noémie Langevin (1927- ), cousin of Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan and writer of the catalog of Jules Grandjouan's works.
- He entered the École Polytechnique in 1887 but the following year was diagnosed with tuberculosis and had to spend six months recuperating in Algeria. He ended up having to do his first year at the École over again and graduated with only mediocre grades. Following his 1888 illness, the need to build up his strength led him to become an enthusiastic mountaineer, swimmer and tennis player.
- He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars (especially Lilian Harvey and Ginger Rogers), traveling, stereoscopic photography and socialism.
- He was a French composer, teacher and writer on music.
- In 1940, the French government offered him the award of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, but he refused it.
- The artist needs an ivory tower, not as an escape from the world, but as a place where he can view the world and be himself. This tower is for the artist like a lighthouse shining out across the world
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