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Pascal Vigneron
Pascal Vigneron (born 23 June 1963) is a French classical musician, both trumpeter, organist, and conductor. Life Born in Commercy (Lorraine), Vigneron's genealogy goes back to 1841, when his ancestors lived in the town of Bruley. He has been a professor at the École normale de musique de Paris from 1999 to 2007 and is the initiator and artistic director of the Bach Festival of Toul founded in 2010. Trumpet Heir to the tradition of the French Trumpet School bequeathed by his masters Roger Delmotte and Marcel Lagorce, his objective was to make this instrument known through original works from Renaissance music to the present day. Pedagogue, musicologist, passionate about art and instrumental making, he has been a privileged collaborator of the Selmer company for 20 years (http://www.selmer.fr). Organist Vigneron was a pupil of Jacques Marichal (organist at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral). In 2005, after a work of more than four years, he published Bach's ''The Art o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard B or C trumpet. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC. They began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips (called the player's embouchure), producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century, trumpets have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape. There are many di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Toul Cathedral
Toul Cathedral (''Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Toul'') is a Roman Catholic church in Toul, Lorraine, France. It is a classic example of late Gothic architecture in the Flamboyant style. The cathedral has one of the biggest cloisters in France. The cathedral was formerly the seat of the Diocese of Toul. Established in 365, it was annexed in 1824 to the Diocese of Nancy, which in 1777 had been formed from the Diocese of Toul. Since 1824, the diocese has been known as the Diocese of Nancy-Toul, Architecture The cathedral has significant elements of the late Gothic Flamboyant style of architecture. Floorplan The towers of the facade measuring 65 meters high, the nave, 100 m long and a vault height of 30 meters and a transept 56 meters wide. Despite construction over more than three centuries, the building's facade has a homogeneity of style. The 13th century saw the construction of the choir, the transept, the last section of the nave and the first row of the gallery of the cloiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
''The Four Seasons'' ( it, Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718−1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as (''The Contest Between Harmony and Invention''). ''The Four Seasons'' is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera ''Il Giustino''. The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718. They were a revolution in musical conception: in them Vivaldi repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Solo (music)
In music, a solo (from the Spanish and Italian based-word: ''Solo'', meaning ''alone'' or ''by yourself'') is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble. Performing a solo is "to solo", and the performer is known as a ''soloist''. The plural is soli or the anglicised form solos. In some contexts these are interchangeable, but ''soli'' tends to be restricted to classical music, and mostly either the solo performers or the solo passages in a single piece. Furthermore, the word ''soli'' can be used to refer to a small number of simultaneous parts assigned to single players in an orchestral composition. In the Baroque concerto grosso, the term for such a group of soloists was '' concertino''. An instrumental solo is often used in popular music duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sylvie Hue
Sylvie Hue is a French classical clarinetist. Biography After having pursued musical and literary studies at the Paris 12 Val de Marne University and at the Conservatoire de Paris, this student of Guy Deplus and Christian Lardé obtained a First prize for clarinet unanimously in 1987 and a first prize for chamber music in 1988. First prize at the Tokyo International Competition in 1988, laureate of the Prague International Competition in 1991, she became the first soloist with the Garde républicaine of Paris orchestra. She performs in recital and with orchestra in France and around the world, especially in Japan. With pianist Frédérique Lagarde, she also plays regularly as a duo and is at the origin of the "Trio Paronyme". Many renowned composer, including Pierre Ancelin, Roger Boutry, Graciane Finzi and Armando Ghidoni, have dedicated concertante and chamber music works to her.booklet in French and English, CD "Contre-chant", Sylvie Hue, clarinette, Frédérique Lagarde, pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kun Woo Paik
Kun-woo Paik (born March 10, 1946 in Seoul) is a South Korean pianist. He has performed with multiple orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. Early life Kun-Woo Paik was born in Seoul. He gave his first concert, aged 10, with the Korean National Orchestra, playing Grieg's Piano Concerto. In the following years, he performed many important works in Korea, including several local premieres such as Mussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition''. Later he studied in New York (Juilliard School), London, and Italy with Rosina Lhévinne, Ilona Kabos, Guido Agosti and Wilhelm Kempff. Kun-Woo Paik is a laureate of the Naumburg and Busoni International Piano Competitions. Career Over the years, Kun-Woo Paik has performed recitals in major musical centres such as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Berlin Philharmonie. He has performed with such orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Jérôme Correas
Jérôme Correas (born 3 August 1966) is a French conductor, harpsichordist and bass baritone. Life Born in Les Lilas, at the age of five Correas began studying the piano. In 1982, he met the great harpsichordist and musicologist Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume with whom he began studying harpsichord and baroque style. After studying hypokhâgne and khâgne at the Lycée Malherbe in Caen, he obtained a degree in history and a degree in art history at the Sorbonne in 1986, and began singing in parallel with his studies. His meeting with William Christie in 1987 was decisive: he entered the Conservatoire de Paris in his Baroque music class and obtained the first prize, then continued his studies in Xavier Depraz' opera class. A member of the Arts Florissants from 1988 to 1993, he worked in 1991 with René Jacobs at the Studio-Versailles Opéra and was passionate about voice and operatic repertoire. On the advice and recommendation of Régine Crespin, he entered the École d' Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Monique Zanetti
Monique Zanetti (born 13 June 1961) is a French soprano. She studied at the University of Metz, then with Elisabeth Grümmer. She first came to attention singing in the same first generation of French early music singers with Agnès Mellon and Gérard Lesne Gérard Lesne (; born 15 July 1956) is a French countertenor. He is also the founder and artistic director of the baroque music ensemble, Il Seminario Musicale. Life and career Gérard Lesne was born in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise. He was originall ....'' Le Monde de la musique'' - Issues 112 to 117 (1988) "Monique Zanetti s'affirme de saison en saison comme la soprano française qui domine ce répertoire, et Gérard Lesne" References {{DEFAULTSORT:Zanetti, Monique 1961 births Living people French operatic sopranos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Michel Chapuis
Michel Chapuis (born 18 June 1941) is a French sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He won the silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, .... ReferencesSports-reference.com profile 1941 births Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics French male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists of France Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic medalists in canoeing Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics {{France-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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André Isoir
André Jean-Marie Isoir (20 July 1935 – 20 July 2016) was a French organist and pedagogue. Biography André Isoir was born in 1935 in Saint-Dizier in Grand Est, France. Isoir studied with Édouard Souberbielle (organ) and Germaine Mounier (piano) at the École César Franck and under Rolande Falcinelli at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the first prizes in organ and improvisation in 1960. Thereafter he won several international organ competitions. In 1965 he won the improvisation competition in St Albans (UK). And, in three successive years, he won the competition in Haarlem (Netherlands), earning the "Challenge Award," the only French interpreter to have achieved this distinction since the inception of the competition in 1951. André Isoir was organist titulaire at St-Médard in Paris from 1952 to 1967 and at St. Severin in 1967. Since 1973 he has been titulaire (head organist) at the ancient Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. In 1974 Isoir was appoint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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L'Histoire Du Soldat
' (''The Soldier's Tale'') is a theatrical work "to be read, played, and danced" () by three actors and one or several dancers, accompanied by a septet of instruments. Conceived by Igor Stravinsky and Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, the piece was based on a Russian folk tale drawn from the collection of Alexander Afanasyev called ''The Runaway Soldier and the Devil''. The libretto relates the parable of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil in return for unlimited economic gain. The music is scored for a septet of violin, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, cornet (often played on trumpet), trombone, and percussion, and the story is told by three actors: the soldier, the devil, and a narrator, who also takes on the roles of minor characters. A dancer plays the non-speaking role of the princess, and there may also be additional ensemble dancers. The original French text by Ramuz has been translated into English by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black, and into German by . A full pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Symphonie Fantastique
' (''Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections'') Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December 1830. Franz Liszt made a piano transcription of the symphony in 1833 (S. 470). The American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests Berlioz composed at least a portion of it under the influence of opium. According to Bernstein, "Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral." Berlioz put a great deal of emotion into the piece, exploring the extremities of many ends of the emotional spectrum. He wanted people to understand his intentions behind it as they were the driving factor behind each movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |