Marcel Darrieux (18 October 1891 – 2 September 1989) was a French classical violinist, particularly known for premiering Sergei Prokofiev's 1st Violin Concerto in 1923.
Henri Berthelier
Henri Berthelier (real name Jean-Baptiste, 27 December 1856 – 1918) was a French classical violinist and pedagogue.
Biography
Born in Limoges, Berthelier graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a pupil of Jean-Pierre Mauri ...
and Lucien Capet were among his teachers.
From 1921 he belonged to the orchestra of the
Opéra-Comique
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. Simultaneously, in the early 1920s he was concertmaster of the Concerts Koussevitzky orchestra under the direction of
Serge Koussevitzky
Sergei Alexandrovich KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (SeThe Koussevit ...
. He is best known as the first interpreter of Prokofiev's 1st Violin Concerto premiered on 18 October 1923. After the refusal of several well-known violin virtuosos (in particular, Bronisław Huberman) to approach this concerto, the composer entrusted the soloist part to the first solo violin of the orchestra. As Darrieux wrote in a letter to Prokofiev, "the musician was until then in absolute darkness, and since he played your concerto with Koussevitzky, I received an invitation to perform it in Paris 3 times during the season, not counting the invitations to the provinces."
In the second half of the 1920s, Darrieux collaborated with the conductor Walther Straram. From 1926, he was the first violin of his orchestra (). On 11 June 1925, Darrieux and Straram premiered
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fru ...
's Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra, Op. 12. Similarly, on 24 February 1927, they premiered
Dimitrios Levidis Dimitrios Levidis ( el, Δημήτριος Λεβίδης; 8 April 1885 or 1886, Athens - 29 May 1951, Palaio Faliro) was a Greek composer, later naturalized French (1929).
Background
He descended from an aristocratic family with Byzantine roots ...
's ''Poème pour violon et orchestre''. In the 1930s, Darrieux was part of the
Concerts Colonne
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History
While leader of the Opéra de Paris orchestra, Édouard Colonne was engaged by the publisher Georges Hartmann to lead ...
. In 1937, he was a member of the jury of the
Queen Elisabeth Competition
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.
With the flutist
Marcel Moyse
Marcel Moyse (pron. ''moh-EEZ''; May 17, 1889, in St. Amour, France – November 1, 1984, in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States) was a French flautist. Moyse studied at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Philippe Gaubert, Adolphe Henn ...
and violist
Pierre Pasquier
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* Pierre Pasquier (businessman)
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* Pierre Pasquier (violist)
Pierre Pasquier (14 September 1902 – 1986) was a French violist.
Born in Tours, Pasquier was a student of Mau ...
, he recorded
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...
's Serenade for flute, violin and viola in D major Op. 25. These three musicians participated in the recording of
Manuel de Falla
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's
Harpsichord Concerto A harpsichord concerto is a piece of music for an orchestra with the harpsichord in a solo role (though for another sense, see below). Sometimes these works are played on the modern piano (see ''piano concerto''). For a period in the late 18th cent ...
. Accompanied on piano, he also recorded isolated pieces by
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...
,
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
,
Gabriel Pierné
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 1863 – 17 July 1937) was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist.
Biography
Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz. His family moved to Paris, after Metz and part of Lorraine were annexed to Germa ...
Légion d'honneur
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* Chevalier of the
Order of Léopold
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