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Samson François Ravel Mascagni Bartók Alfred Cortot Yvonne Lefébure Nadia Boulanger Marguerite Long Chopin Schumann Debussy Maximilien John Bell Young 1924 1932 1935 1938 1955 1968 1970 2002
LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more score videos ! (http•••) SUBSCRIBE to my PATREON ! → (http•••) Film : Samson François plays Ravel's Scarbo from Gaspard de la nuit (1970) The French pianist Samson François +••.••(...)) appeared at a recording studio for the last time in February 1970 eight month before he died at the age of 46. Rather sad to watch him in such a fragile condition. His face was marked by serious health issues. The clarity and brilliance in his playing had vanished. But he remains as one of the most remarkable individual pianist of the last century, most provocative and enigmatic in his playing in our opinion. He bequeathed many great recordings. BIOGRAPHY Samson Pascal François (May 18, 1924 - October 22, 1970) was a French pianist. François was born in Frankfurt where his father worked at the French consulate. His mother, Rose, named him Samson, for strength, and Pascal, for spirit. François discovered the piano early – at the age of two – and his first studies were in Italy, with Mascagni, who encouraged him to give his first concert at the age of six. Moving from country to country with his itinerant family, he studied in Belgrade with Cyril Licar, obtaining a first prize in performance. Licar also introduced him to the works of Bartók. Having studied in the Conservatoire in Nice from 1932 to 1935, where he again won first prize, François came to the attention of Alfred Cortot, who encouraged him to move to Paris and study with Yvonne Lefébure at the l'École Normale de Musique. He also studied piano with Cortot (who reportedly found him almost impossible to teach), and harmony with Nadia Boulanger. In 1938, he moved to the Paris Conservatoire to study with Marguerite Long, the doyenne of French teachers of the age. He was particularly admired for his performances of Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, and Ravel. Many of these interpretations are now available on compact disc. François was a keen jazz fan, and claimed that jazz influenced his playing. He composed, among other works, a concerto for piano and incidental music for film. He married Josette Bahvsar, and their son Maximilien was born in 1955. Maximilien published a biography of his father in 2002 (see bibliography below). Samson François' extravagant lifestyle, good looks, and passionate but highly disciplined playing, gave him a cult status as a pianist. Though, his passion for night life and his reckless behavior (characterized by lavish drinking and drug use) resulted in a heart attack on the concert platform in 1968. His early death followed only two years later. Critic John Bell Young, in the "St Petersburg Times" of Florida, called François (on May 5, 2002) "a charismatic figure, an iconoclast and musical maverick", who, along with Long and Cortot, was "the most important pianist in postwar France. There was something of the swashbuckler about him; his playing was as daring as it was rhapsodic, but also notable for its uncompromising integrity and extraordinary intelligence." François himself said "never play simply to play well". And, in a remark that was clearly inspired by his jazz influences, "It must be that there is never the impression of being obliged to play the next note".
Szostak Bach Heiden Fryderyk Chopin Beethoven Lefébure Lefébure Wély Vierne Józef Elsner Sawa Andrzej Chorosiński Ambrosiano Ullrich Böhme Dijk François Espinasse Penin Daniel Roth Roth Zehnder Frédéric Blanc Thierry Escaich Jarry Vries Church Our Lady 1782 2002 2011 2013 2014 2017 2018 2019
1. Improvisation, Symphonic Variations on a well-known theme 2. J.S. Bach, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 3. J.S. Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 4. Fr. Chopin, Nocturne in E flat Major, Op. 9, No 2 5. Fr. Chopin, Mazurka in B flat Major, Op. 7, No 1 6. L. van Beethoven, Allegro con brio, 5th Symphony in C Minor, Op. 67 7. L.J.A. Lefébure-Wély, Andante “Chœur do voix humaines”, Op. 122, No. 7 8. L.J.A. Lefébure-Wély, Boléro de concert, Op. 166 9. L. Vierne, Arabesque from “24 Pieces en style libre”, Op. 31 10. Improvisation, Symphonic Toccata I started studying the organ at the age of 17 in Warsaw, Poland. I am a graduate of the Józef Elsner Public School of Music in Warsaw in the organ class of Dr Roman Szlaużys and organ improvisation in the class of Prof. Marian Sawa. I had been studying organ performance as part of an artistic internship at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in Prof. Andrzej Chorosiński’s class, as well as organ improvisation at the Pontificio Istituto Ambrosiano di Musica Sacra in Milan (Italy) in Maestro Davide Paleari’s class. I participated in master classes on the subject matter of organ works (Ullrich Böhme, Andrew Dewar, Pieter van Dijk, François Espinasse, Bernhard Gfrerer, François-Henri Houbart, Oliver Penin, Louis Robilliard, Daniel Roth, Jean-Claude Zehnder and others), organ improvisation (Frédéric Blanc, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Thierry Escaich, Gaétan Jarry, Samuel Liégeon, Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard, Wolfgang Seifen, Sietze de Vries and others) and liturgical music (Roman Catholic and Anglican). In February 2019, I obtained an academic degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in the field of 'Instrumental Studies' in the discipline of 'Organ Performance' based on the dissertation of "Organ, as a source of inspiration in the art of improvisation and performance practice" written under the direction of prof. Andrzej Chorosiński and defended at the Białystok faculty of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. I am an international concert organist and I have the pleasure to perform regular solo recitals in countries of Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and Africa: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Monaco, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the USA. I conduct international (Nigeria, Poland, Ukraine) didactic activities in the field of organ improvisation and practice of interpretation of organ literature from different periods, among others in cooperation with The Royal School of Church Music. I participate in international academic conferences on organ and sacred music (Belgium, Nigeria, Poland). My organological publications are issued regularly by prestigious organ magazines: British "The Organ", Canadian "Organ Canada", as well as American "The Diapason" and "The Vox Humana". Since 2013 I have been a member of The Royal College of Organists, based in London, and since 2014 (as the first Pole) I have had a certificate (certRCO) from this organization. Since 2017 I have been a member of The American Guild of Organists, based in New York City, USA and since 2018 I have been a member of The Organ Historical Society based in the USA. In the years 2002-2011, I was an organist at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Warsaw; I wrote a monograph on the history of the organ (J.G. Meinert, 1782) of this church, and I recorded a CD (organ literature and improvisations), which is the only record of the sound of this instrument which no longer exists. At that time I co-authored a series of broadcasts on “Radio Warszawa 106.2” about organs in the Warsaw-Prague Diocese. In the years 2011-2018, I held the position of Music Director and the Leading Organist at the Sanctuary of the Virgin Mary in Lichen Stary, where I played the largest organ in Poland (Zych, 157, 6M+P) located in the Basilica in Licheń Stary (the largest church in Poland). In 2017, I wrote the book "The Lichen Organ in relation to the Largest Instruments in Poland, Europe and the World" and recorded a compact disc, “Ave Regina Caelorum” with improvisations on the biggest organ in Poland (in the Basilica in Licheń Stary - can be bought on eBay). In 2018 I recorded a second compact disc in the Basilica in Licheń Stary, Poland with French literature and improvisations, "French Inspirations: 2nd half of the 19th century" (eBay). For more detailed information, please visit www.michalszostak.org/cv Michał Szostak, D.Mus.A., Associate Professor
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