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French composer (1846-1916)
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- composer, musicologist, music teacher, pianist, university teacher
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2016-10-31 06:00:56
Classical music: A Halloween treat of music for multiple pianos was served up by the Salon Piano Series at Farley’s House of Pianos
[…] a matter of doubling up the players on the same parts: more analytic than the original, this treatment does not really improve anything. As an encore, the four delivered a Horowitzian transcription of John Philip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever. (You can hear Vladimir Horowitz perform it in the YouTube video at the bottom.) Responding to endless audience enthusiasm, the four then sat down together at the Steinway to play a Galopp by one Albert Lavignac, written for one piano, eight hands. The four players had a ball climbing all over each other to do this novelty piece as intended. One interesting feature of the program was the opportunity to hear and compare these four fine pianos against each other. And the four performers added to the experience by constantly rotating who played which instrument. To my ears, the Mason & Hamlin instruments could deliver a marvelous richness […]
2016-03-27 13:00:18
Sunday, March 27, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Vincent d’Indy In 1851 Vincent d’Indy was born in Paris. He was born into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and Louis Diémer. From the age of 14 he studied harmony with Albert Lavignac. At age 19, during the Franco-Prussian War, he enlisted in the National Guard, but returned to musical life as soon as the hostilities were over. The first of his works he heard performed was a Symphonie italienne, at an orchestral rehearsal under Jules Pasdeloup; the work was admired by Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet, with whom he had already become acquainted. On the advice of Henri Duparc, he became a devoted student of César Franck at the […]
2015-01-15 23:21:19
[…] to a dance style popular in aristocratic circles in 18th Century Madrid … but music critic Frédéric Decaunes has written that it is also remindful of a bossa nova. It’s an interesting observation considering that in 1938, the bossa nova was still two decades away from breaking out beyond the borders of Brazil. Gabriel Faure was Florent Schmitt’s most influential teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. Schmitt also studied with Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois, Albert Lavignac and Théodore Gédalge. The second movement, Charmilles, is also dancelike but in a wholly different way: It is a dreamy and tender barcarolle. To my ears, it is similar in character to Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande – and wholly appropriate, too, in that Fauré had been Schmitt’s great teacher and mentor. The province of Calabria in Southern Italy is the setting for the sassy middle movement, Pécorée de Calabre. This is Schmitt’s […]
2012-08-16 20:17:08
Happy birthday Gabriel
Everyone knows Debussy, Ravel, Satie… but Gabriel Pierné? He was born in Metz on August 16, 1863 and died on July 17, 1937 in Ploujean. What else? He was born into a musical family: his mother was a piano teacher and his father a voice teacher. Impossible to escape destiny here! He will of course take lessons at the Conservatoire de Paris in piano, organ and composition under Albert Lavignac, Antoine François Marmontel, Émile Durand, César Franck (he will replace his teacher at the Sainte-Clothilde Church upon his passing) and Jules Massenet. This is also where he met Claude Debussy, who would remain a close friend. He led a stellar career as a conductor. He was head of the Concerts Colonne from 1910 to1934 and championed contemporay works by Debussy, Ravel, Roussel, Stravinsky… He also premiered works for orchestra by Louis Vierne, Georges Enesco and Darius Milhaud. He composed in all […]
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