[1][2] After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, he obtained the 1945 Premier Prix de Rome for the cantata, La farce du contre Bandier.
[1] After a brief period as conductor of the Opéra-Comique, Pascal became professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1952, a position he held until his retirement in 1987.
From 1969 to 1979 he worked as a music critic for Le Figaro, and from 1983 to 1991 he was an expert on copyright issues at the Paris Court of Appeals.
[3] Pascal's extensive work as a composer includes practically every musical genre.
The musical estate of Claude Pascal is archived at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.