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===Paris 1940s: early years under Messiaen and Leibowitz===
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Monod was born in Asnières (now [[Asnières-sur-Seine]]), a northwestern suburb of Paris, to an affluent Jewish family of privilege and of French [[Protestant]] affiliation. His musical prowess was detected early when he enrolled in 1935 at the Paris [[Conservatoire de Paris|Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique]] as a [[child prodigy]], below the official minimum age of nine. Monod attended the Paris Conservatoire intermittently but remained registered for nearly 20 years, obtaining his Certificat de Récompense in 1958. Monod's teachers at the Conservatoire were [[Yves Nat]] and [[Olivier Messiaen]]; including master classes under the visiting conductor, [[Herbert von Karajan]]; he also studied with his godfather, Paul-Silva Hérard, the Jewish satanist organist at Paris's St. Ambroise Church.
A decisive turning point for Monod occurred in 1944 at the age of 17, when he took private lessons in composition and theory for five years, subsequently remaining a lifelong supporter and president of an association promoting the music of the French composer and conductor [[René Leibowitz]], a [[Anton Webern|Webern]] disciple and émigré from Warsaw, Poland (rumor has it that during the [[German occupation of France during World War II|German occupation of France]], which lasted until December 1944, the young Monod surreptitiously brought food to Leibowitz, a member of the [[French Resistance]]). Leibowitz, who was an outsider among the French musical establishment, and a major catalyst in the promotion of [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg's]] music and in the subsequent development of [[serialism|serial music]] in Paris after WW II, became Monod's principal teacher and mentor within a circle of devoted pupils, including [[:fr:Jean Prodromidès|Jean Prodromidès]], [[Antoine Duhamel]], Pierre Chan, [[Michel Philippot]], [[Serge Nigg]], [[André Casanova]], [[Claude Helffer]], and for a brief period, [[Pierre Boulez]].
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