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Marie Vermeulin
Marie Vermeulin (born 22 November 1983) is a French classical pianist. Biography Born in Courcouronnes, Vermeulin began her piano studies with Jacqueline Dussol, then with Marie-Paule Siruguet at the , before continuing them from 2001 to 2004 at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon, where she was a student of Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Edson Elias. At the same time, she studied for four years with Lazar Berman in Florence, then at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale Imola. She finally perfected her skills with Roger Muraro. She won the first Grand Prize of the International Music Tournament in December 2004 (by vote of the Jury and the Public), the Second Grand Prize and Youngest Finalist Award at the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona in May 2006, and Second Grand Prize at the Olivier Messiaen Competition in December 2007. In November 2014 she won the Prix d'interprétation at the Simone and Cino Del Duca foundation awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courcouronnes
Courcouronnes () is a former commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Évry-Courcouronnes. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Évry Ville Nouvelle, created in the 1960s. History A 19th century aqueduct, which brings drinking water from the rivers Vanne and Loing to the city of Paris, crosses the outskirts of Courcouronnes. Economy Arianespace, a commercial company that sells the Ariane rockets, is based there. Carrefour's Hypermarket division is based in the city. Accor was formerly headquartered in Courcouronnes. Education There are the following schools: *Six primary schools: Jules Ferry, Paul Bert, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Jacques Brel, and Jacques Tati - Another school, Ecole Frédéric Mistral, is in nearby Lisses *Collège Paul Fort, a junior high school * Lycée Georges Brassens, a senior high school/sixth-form college Parks and recreation Parc-du-Lac Courcou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Montbrison in the Loire department of France, the son of an engineer, Boulez studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen, and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg and René Leibowitz. He began his professional career in the late 1940s as music director of the Renaud-Barrault theatre company in Paris. He was a leading figure in avant-garde music, playing an important role in the development of integral serialism (in the 1950s), controlled chance music (in the 1960s) and the electronic transformation of instrumental music in real time (from the 1970s onwards). His tendency to revise earlier compositions meant that his body of work was relatively small, but it included pieces regarded by many as landmarks of twentieth-century music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Grether
Elsa Grether (born 28 June 1980) is a French classical violinist, laureate of the ''International Pro Musicis 2009 Prize'' unanimously by the jury (with pianist Delphine Bardin), who made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall in New York and in Boston in 2012. Training Born in Mulhouse, Grether began playing the violin at the age of five. She obtained a first prize in violin unanimously from the jury at the on her fifteenth birthday. She continued her training abroad at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Ruggiero Ricci, then in the United States with Mauricio Fuks at the Indiana University Bloomington and Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music of Boston. She also benefited from the advice of Régis Pasquier in Paris. Style and repertoire As a soloist with orchestra, she has played numerous concertos (Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Bruch, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Shebalin, Dvorak, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Ravel's ''Tzigane'' etc.) She performs in r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Études (Debussy)
Claude Debussy's ''Études'' ( L 136) are a set of 12 piano études composed in 1915. Debussy described them as "a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands". They are broadly considered his late masterpieces. # ''Étude 1 pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny'' (five fingers, "after Monsieur Czerny") # ''Étude 2 pour les tierces'' ( thirds) # ''Étude 3 pour les quartes'' ( fourths) # ''Étude 4 pour les sixtes'' ( sixths) # ''Étude 5 pour les octaves'' # ''Étude 6 pour les huit doigts'' (eight fingers) # ''Étude 7 pour les degrés chromatiques'' (chromatic degrees) # ''Étude 8 pour les agréments'' ( ornaments) # ''Étude 9 pour les notes répétées'' (repeated notes) # ''Étude 10 pour les sonorités opposées'' (opposing sonorities) # ''Étude 11 pour les arpèges composés'' (composite arpeggios) # ''Étude 12 pour les accords'' (chords) Notes References * Elie Robert Schmitz, V. Thomson. ''The Piano Work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estampes
''Estampes'' ("Prints"), L.100, is a composition for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was finished in 1903. The first performance of the work was given by Ricardo Viñes at the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris. This three-movement piano suite is impressionistic. Structure ''Estampes'' is a suite containing three movements: I. ''Pagodes'' ''Pagodes'' evokes Indonesian gamelan music, which Debussy first heard in the Paris World Conference Exhibition of 1889. It makes extensive use of pentatonic scales and mimics traditional Indonesian melodies. Four different pentatonic scales are incorporated within the piece, further defining the imagery of the pagoda. Pagodas are Oriental temples with petite bases that give rise to ornate roofs that typically curve upwards, much like the ascending melodic line (G, C, D) which serves as a repeated motive through different portions of the piece. As this is an Impressionistic work, the goal is not overt expressiveness but instead an em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pour Le Piano
''Pour le piano'' (''For the piano''), L. 95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It consists of three individually composed movements, Prélude, Sarabande and Toccata. The suite was completed and published in 1901. It was premiered on 11 January 1902 at the Salle Érard, played by Ricardo Viñes. Maurice Ravel orchestrated the middle movement. Regarded as Debussy's first mature piano composition, the suite has frequently been recorded. Bärenreiter published a critical edition in 2018, on the occasion of the centenary of Debussy's death. History Claude Debussy composed the three pieces forming the suite at different times. The second movement, a sarabande, dates to the winter of 1894 when it belonged to the series of ''Images oubliées'', dedicated to Yvonne Lerolle, the daughter of Henry Lerolle. Debussy composed little piano music during the 1890s and focused on opera and orchestral music. He completed the suite in 1901, revising Sarabande. He also dedicated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petites Esquisses D'oiseaux
''Petites esquisses d'oiseaux'', is a piano work by Olivier Messiaen composed in 1985, dedicated to his wife Yvonne Loriod. It has six parts, three of which are devoted to robins. Analysis In the preface, Messiaen writes: Premiere The piece was premiered at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris on 26 January 1987 by Yvonne Loriod. The duration is about 14 minutes. Titles of the pieces The six movements are titled: # Le Rouge-gorge (The Robin, Erithacus rubecula) # Le Merle noir (The Common Blackbird, Turdus merula) # Le Rouge-gorge (The Robin) # La Grive musicienne (The Song Thrush, Turdus philomelos) # Le Rouge-gorge (The Robin) # L'Alouette des champs (The Eurasian Skylark, Alauda arvensis) Recordings Recordings include: * Yvonne Loriod, piano (+ '' Préludes'', ''Quatre Études de rythme'') Erato Records 2292-45505-2/V ECD 71589, 1987-88 * Paul Kim, piano (+ ''Catalogue d'oiseaux'', '' La Fauvette des jardins'') Centaur Records CRC 2567/68/69, 2001 * Fredrik Ul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preludes (Messiaen)
''Préludes pour piano'' (''Preludes for piano'') is an early work for piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen composed in 1928–1929, when the composer was 20 years old. Messiaen considered it to be his first work of any value. The composition is based on Messiaen's modes of limited transposition, and betrays an influence of Claude Debussy, Debussy's Préludes (Debussy), preludes. The pieces were premiered by the composer in a private performance at the Concerts Durand which took place on January 28, 1930. The first public performance was given by Henriette Puig-Roget on March 1, 1930, at the Salle Érard at the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris.Nigel Simeone, Olivier Messiaen: A Bibliographical Catalogue of Messiaen's Works. Movements The work is in eight movements, each accompanied by a description consisting mostly of the associated colors. It takes about 34 minutes to play in full. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Preludes 1928 compositions 1929 compositions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically and melodically he employs a system he called '' modes of limited transposition'', which he abstracted from the systems of material generated by his early compositions and improvisations. He wrote music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, vocal music, as well as for solo organ and piano, and also experimented with the use of novel electronic instruments developed in Europe during his lifetime. Messiaen entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11 and studied with Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré, among others. He was appointed organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, in 1931, a post held for 61 years until his death. He taught at the Schola Cantorum de Paris during the 1930s. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Brotons
Salvador Brotons (born 1959 in Barcelona) is a Catalan composer, conductor, and flautist. Early life In the year of 1967, Salvador Brotons attended the Barcelona Conservatory of Music where he received titles in his three areas of studies, which consisted of conducting, composition, and flute. Ten years later in 1977, he was then made the principal flautist of the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona. Later in 1985, Brotons left Spain to go to study at the Florida State University through the Fulbright Scholarship, from which he received his Doctorate in Music. Brotons later moved out west to both teach and conduct at Portland State University in Oregon. Here, he taught music literature and history, as well as orchestral conducting. From 1987-97, he also conducted for the Portland State University Symphony Orchestra. Works and awards So far, throughout his life, Brotons has composed 143 works and 16 recordings. Brotons mainly produces works for orchestras and chamber ensembles. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debora Waldman
Debora Racing cars is a small French car builder, popular with private racing teams, based in Besançon, France. Teams generally use their chassis to take part in Le Mans style endurance racing such as Magny Cours, Jarama and le Mans. Drivers also tend to be French with Bruno Boccard and David Dusseau being two of the more famous. Debora use an LMP Le Mans Prototype type 1 body shell over a mid-engined chassis with open driving seat in the bodywork. Their Type 2 LMP with closed bodywork owes much to the Courage and is a truly beautiful piece of engineering. Engines have been known to come from a 3-litre BMW and a 2-litre Ford Cosworth Turbo on the Jarama racetrack 1997. Sponsored by Waterair in 1998 the Debora two car team did a little better with one of the cars coming in 15th a mere 19 laps behind the winner. Later in '98 at the ISRS world championships, Debora carried off the trophy for SR2 driven by De Castelli, Jakubowski & Bruneau. In July 2000 during the US Le Mans seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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