Prey, Claude (1925- )

French composer. He wrote the chamber opera Le coeur révelateur in 1962, after Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, and is best known for the operas Les liaisons dangereuses (1974) and Le rouge et le noir (1989).

He studied with Milhaud and Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory.

Works Stage chamber opera Le coeur révelateur (after Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, 1962); the operas Les liaisons dangereuses (1974) and Le rouge et le noir (1989); La grand mère française (1976); Lunedi bleue (1982), Pauline (1983), and Sommaire Soleil (1990).