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Casadesus
Casadesus is the surname of a prominent French artistic family. Its members include: * (1870–1954), composer and conductor ** Jules-Raphaël Casadesus, journalist, writer *** (1925–1999), writer, poet * Robert-Guillaume Casadesus (1878–1940), composer and singer known as "Robert Casa" ** Robert Casadesus (1899–1972), pianist and composer ** Gaby Casadesus (1901–1999), pianist, wife of Robert Casadesus *** Jean Casadesus (1927–1972), pianist, son of Robert and Gaby Casadesus * Henri Casadesus (1879–1947), violist and composer ** Catherine Casadesus (1902–1985), violinist ** Jacqueline Casadesus (1903–1976), pianist, singer and actress ** Christian Casadesus (1912-2014), actor, theatre manager ** Gisèle Casadesus (1914-2017), actress, daughter of Henri Casadesus *** Jean-Claude Casadesus (born 1935), conductor, son of Gisèle Casadesus **** (born 1962), lyric soprano, daughter of Jean-Claude Casadesus **** (born 1970), actor and model, son of Jean-Claude Casadesu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Casadesus
Robert Marcel Casadesus (7 April 1899 – 19 September 1972) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus. Biography Casadesus was born in Paris, and studied there at the Conservatoire with Louis Diémer, taking a ''Premier Prix'' (First Prize) in 1913 and the Prix Diémer in 1920. Robert then entered the class of Lucien Capet, who had exceptional influence. Capet had founded a famous quartet that bore his name ( Capet Quartet) and in which two of Robert's uncles played: Henri and Marcel. The Quartet often rehearsed in the Casadesus home, and so it was that Robert was exposed to chamber music. The Beethoven Quartets held no secret for him—he knew them backwards and forwards. Beginning in 1922, Casadesus collaborated with the composer Maurice Ravel on a project to create piano rolls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gréco Casadesus
Gréco Casadesus (born 13 August 1951) is a French composer who composes film scores. Born in Paris to a large family of artists (musicians, conductors, performers, actors, composers, painters, and writers), he has composed over a hundred musical creations for television, cinema, performances, and theatre. In his early years, he started out as an artistic director for EMI Classics, then set out to create music for the stage (1983-1997). From 1984 on, he started writing music for TV and cinema with a style combining orchestral music and electronics (synthesizers and computer music). Casadesus composed soundtracks for a diverse range of productions, such as ''Divertimento'', with Kellan Lutz, Torrey DeVitto, Ola Rapace, Götz Otto by Keyvan Sheikhalishahi, '' The Climb'', a fiction movie by the American director Bob Swaim, the animated film '' Babar: King of the Elephants'', adapted from the classic French comic by Jean de Brunhof, or the TV series ''Jesus'' by Serge Moati. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Casadesus
Henri-Gustave Casadesus (30 September 1879, Paris – 31 May 1947, Paris) was a violist, viola d'amore player, composer, and music publisher. Early life Casadesus received his early musical instruction with Albert Lavignac and studied viola with Théophile Laforge at the Conservatoire de Paris, taking first prize in 1899. From 1910 to 1917, he was the violist of the Capet Quartet. Career Along with Camille Saint-Saëns, Casadesus founded the "Société des instruments anciens" in 1901. The society, which operated between 1901 and 1939, was a quintet of performers who used obsolete instruments such as the viola da gamba, or Casadesus's own instrument, the viola d'amore. The quintet was also notable in its day for premiering rediscovered works by long-dead composers. It was later discovered that Casadesus and his brothers, notably Marius Casadesus, wrote these works. The Adélaïde Concerto, allegedly by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Henri but i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Casadesus
Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and ''Grand-Croix'' of the National Order of Merit. In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus appeared in more than a dozen films after turning 90. Life and career Born into a family of artists in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, Gisèle was the daughter of musician, composer and conductor Henri Casadesus and harpist Marie-Louise Beetz, her older brother was actor Christian Casadesus. After receiving first prize in acting at French National Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of twenty, Casadeus joined the Comédie-Française in 1934. The same year, she married the actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), with whom she had four children: Jean-Claude (1935), Martine (1939), Bà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Casadesus
Jean Claude Michel Casadesus (17 July 1927 – 20 January 1972) was a French classical pianist. He was the son of the renowned pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, and grandnephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus. Jean Casadesus was born in Paris. He was taught to play piano by his parents and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris before going to the United States to continue his studies at Princeton University. He made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy in 1947 and thereafter enjoyed success as a concert pianist and also as a piano teacher, principally at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. His notable students include Robert D. Levin. From 1965 until his death, Casadesus was artist in residence and instructor at the New York State University at Binghamton. Jean and his parents performed Mozart's concertos for 2 and 3 pianos. They recorded these works with the Columbia Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaby Casadesus
Gaby Casadesus (August 9, 1901 – November 12, 1999) was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseilles, France. She was married to the French pianist Robert Casadesus and their son Jean was also a notable pianist. Biography Born Gabrielle l'Hôte, she studied at the Paris Conservatory with Louis Diémer and Marguerite Long and was awarded the first prize in piano at age 16. She met Claude Debussy at this time, as he was the judge for one of her competitions. She was also friendly with Debussy's daughter Claude-Emma who died soon after of diphtheria. Gaby later won the Prix Pagès, which was the most prestigious award in France at the time for which women were eligible. In 1921, she married the pianist Robert Casadesus and with him formed the Robert and Gaby Casadesus duo. The duo made many recordings of the four-hand piano repertoire. However, Gaby was also a significant soloist. She knew Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Florent Schmitt and Moritz Moszkowski, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Casadesus
Marius Casadesus (24 October 1892 – 13 October 1981) was a French violinist and composer. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps his greatest fame (or notoriety) through his association with the Adélaïde Concerto attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart. This concerto was published in 1933 in a piano transcription under Mozart's name, with Casadesus as "editor." Many music scholars believed in its authenticity, and Yehudi Menuhin made a recording of the concerto. It was even given a place in the Köchel-Verzeichnis (the standard catalog of Mozart's works), albeit as "K. Anh. 294a." ("Anh." denotes "Anhang" or "appendix" to the catalog.) However, Mozart collector Alfred Einstein's doubts about this piece were confirmed when Casadesus later admitted his authorship in court in 1977 during a copyright dispute. Casadesus' brother Henri Casadesus, Henri was also a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Casadesus
Christian Casadesus, (26 December 1912 Р6 March 2014), was a French actor and theatre director who worked professionally in both movies and in theater. Career Casadesus was born in Paris on 26 December 1912. His father, Henri Casadesus, was a musician and composer, and his mother, Marie-Louise Beetz, a harpist. He made his first film appearance in 1930. He studied acting at the CNSAD with Louis Jouvet and gave his debut at the theater in 1937. In 1939 he was drafted into the army during the Phoney War. In 1942, he played Hamlet at the Th̢̩tre H̩bertot. In 1948, he ran a jazz club with Freddy Chauvelot, the Club Saint-Germain, which staged musicians and singers such as Django Reinhardt, Juliette Gr̩co, and Boris Vian. Casadesus played Philibert Le Roy in the 1953 film Si Versailles m'̩tait cont̩ de Sacha Guitry, his last film role. From 1954 to 1966, he was the Artistic Director of the Th̢̩tre de l'Ambigu-Comique. Afterwards, he undertook several missions for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béatrice Casadesus
Béatrice Casadesus (born 1 January 1942) is a French painter and sculptor, and professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ... at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Biography Born Béatrice Probst to actress Gisèle Casadesus and actor Lucien Pascal (born Lucien Probst), Casadesus followed courses with Edmée Larnaudie at the École des Arts Appliqués from 1956 to 1959. From 1960 to 1966, she studied painting and sculpture with Henri-Georges Adam at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and participated in the Roman theater group of the University of Paris, Sorbonne alongside Jean-Pierre Miquel, , and Jacques Lacarrière. In 1964, she received the Prix de Rome for sculptors, and stayed in Italy, and with a grant from , she began a colla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert-Guillaume Casadesus
Robert Gabriel Guillaume Casadesus, known as Robert Casa (23 January 1878 in Paris, France Р30 May 1940) was a French composer, singer and stage and film actor. He was a member of a prominent French musical family, and best known today as the father of the famous classical pianist Robert Casadesus. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, and grandfather of Jean Casadesus. He composed several songs, instrumental pieces, and operettas, including ''La Ribaude'' and ''La Reine de l'Or''. Selected filmography * ''La Maison de la Fl̩che'' (1930) * ''Luck'' (1931) * ''Ciboulette'' (1933) * ''Counsel for Romance ''Counsel for Romance'' (French: ''Un mauvais gar̤on'') is a 1936 French romantic comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and Raoul Ploquin and starring Danielle Darrieux, Henri Garat and Jean Dax. Production The film was made as a co-production b ...'' (1936) References Casadesus family site 1878 births 1940 deaths French composers French m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Casadesus
Jean-Claude Probst (born 7 December 1935), known professional as Jean-Claude Casadesus, is a French conductor. Biography Casadesus was born in Paris on 7 December 1935, the son of actress Gisèle Casadesus and her husband Lucien Pascal. He began his career as a percussionist before studying composition and conducting with Pierre Dervaux and Pierre Boulez. In 1969 he was hired as assistant conductor at the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique. In 1971 he co-founded the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire with Pierre Dervaux, and acted as Dervaux's deputy there until 1976. In 1976 he became principal conductor of the Orchestre national de Lille, performing concerts locally and internationally. He directed the French Youth Orchestra in 2007. Personal life Jean-Claude has been married twice and has three children, his only daughter Caroline (b. 30 October 1962) is an opera singer and his first born son Sebastian Copeland (b. 3 April 1964) is a film director whose mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Pascal
Martine Pascal (born 27 January 1939) is a French theatre, cinema, and television actress. She is the daughter of actress Gisèle Casadesus (1914–2017) and actor Lucien Pascal (1906–2006). Pascal was married to American-born French production designer In film and television, the production designer is the individual responsible for the overall aesthetic of the story. The production design gives the viewers a sense of the time period, the plot location, and character actions and feelings. Wo ... and art director Willy Holt with whom she has two children Natalie Holt and Oliver Holt. See also * Casadesus References External links * The Casadesus Family {{DEFAULTSORT:Pascal, Martine 1939 births Living people Actresses from Paris French stage actresses French film actresses French television actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Casadesus family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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