Photo: Pascal Comelade / CC BY-SA 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Pascal Comelade is one of those artists I treasure precisely because he refuses to be grand. A Frenchman born in Montpellier, shaped by years in Barcelona and by the electronic experiments of Heldon, he turned toy pianos and miniature instruments into a whole emotional language. His music sounds like childhood remembered through an adult's melancholy: small, fragile sounds carrying enormous feeling. That the French state made him an Officer of Arts and Letters in 2017 only confirms what listeners already knew. He never followed trends; he built a private world and invited us in. I find his stubborn intimacy genuinely moving.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Pascal Comelade
- Name (Japanese)
- パスカル・コムラード
- Reading
- ぱすかる・こむらーど
- Born
- June 30, 1955 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Goat
- Origin
- Montpellier, Hérault, France
- Occupation
- pianist / composer / film score composer / musician
2. Background
Awards & achievements
- 2017 Officer of Arts and Letters
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Pascal Comelade born?
Born June 30, 1955 (age 71).
Where is Pascal Comelade from?
Pascal Comelade is from Montpellier, Hérault, France.
What does Pascal Comelade do?
Pascal Comelade works as pianist, composer, film score composer, musician.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.