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List Of Classical Piano Duos (performers)
The term piano duo can refer both to a genre of music, written for two pianists to play at either one or two pianos, or to the two pianists themselves. This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for List of compositions for piano duo#Piano four-hands, piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as ''piano duet'') as well as works for List of compositions for piano duo#Two pianos, two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this repertoire, but some also appeared separately as solo pianists. Some piano duos appear under a single name (such as the ''Long Island Piano Duo''), or a unified name (such as ''Nettle & Markham''), but the majority simply use both their names (such as ''Katia and Marielle Labèque'' or ''Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir''). People in this list should not be added to List of classical pianists unl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, jazz, blues, and all sorts of popular music, including rock and roll. Most pianists can, to an extent, easily play other keyboard-related instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta, and the organ. Pianists past and present Modern classical pianists dedicate their careers to performing, recording, teaching, researching, and learning new works to expand their repertoire. They generally do not write or transcribe music as pianists did in the 19th century. Some classical pianists might specialize in accompaniment and chamber music, while others (though comparatively few) will perform as full-time soloists. Classical Mozart could be considered the first "concert pianist" as he performed widely on the piano. Composers Bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bradshaw
David Bradshaw (born September 28, 1944) is an American artist based in Cecilia, Louisiana, and East Charleston, Vermont. He is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Biography Born in New York City, David Bradshaw was raised in Washington, D.C., and Old Greenwich, Connecticut. His father was a modern interior designer, and his mother a classical pianist. He pursued a BA at the Hartford Art School from 1962 to 1965. With less than one year remaining to obtain his degree he left school and traveled throughout Europe spending his time sketching the regional landscapes and its inhabitants. Upon returning, Bradshaw became extremely active in the US Civil Rights Movement. In 1976, he was alleged to have shot and killed Cheeseface, the dog who appeared on '' National Lampoon''s famous "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" cover. Artistic work Trained in traditional artistic skills and processes Bradshaw is known for his use of handguns, explosive devices (typicall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Taimanov
Mark Evgenievich Taimanov (russian: Марк Евгеньевич Тайманов; 7 February 1926 – 28 November 2016) was one of the leading Soviet and Russian chess players, among the world's top 20 players from 1946 to 1971. A prolific chess author, Taimanov was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1952 and in 1956 won the USSR Chess Championship. He was a World Championship Candidate in 1953 and 1971, and several opening variations are named after him. Taimanov was also a world-class concert pianist. Early life Taimanov was born in Kharkiv, where his parents studied at the time. They moved to Leningrad when he was six months old. His father Evgeny Zakharovich Taimanov was Jewish; his family escaped to Kharkiv from Smolensk during World War I. Evgeny was a student at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute and later made a career as a head engineer at the Kirov Plant and the Hydraulic Plant, but left it to work as an engineer at the Leningrad Conservatory and various Leningrad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite '' Trois mouvements perpétuels'' (1919), the ballet ''Les biches'' (1923), the ''Concert champêtre'' (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera ''Dialogues des Carmélites'' (1957), and the '' Gloria'' (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra. As the only son of a prosperous manufacturer, Poulenc was expected to follow his father into the family firm, and he was not allowed to enrol at a music college. Largely self-educated musically, he studied with the pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became his mentor after the composer's parents died. Poulenc also made the acquaintance of Erik Satie, under whose tutelage he became one of a group of young composers known collectively as ''Les Six''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Symphony
''A Symphony to Dante's Divine Comedy'', List of compositions by Franz Liszt (S.1 - S.350), S.109, or simply the "''Dante Symphony''", is a choral symphony composed by Franz Liszt. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell and Purgatory, as depicted in ''The Divine Comedy''. It was premiered in Dresden in November 1857, with Liszt conducting himself, and was unofficially dedicated to the composer's friend and future son-in-law Richard Wagner. The entire symphony takes approximately 50 minutes to perform. It premiered on 7 November 1857. Some critics have argued that the ''Dante Symphony'' is not so much a symphony in the classical sense as it is two descriptive symphonic poems. Regardless, ''Dante'' consists of two movements, both in a loosely structured ternary form with little use of thematic transformation. Composition Liszt had been sketching themes for the work since the early 1840s. The French poet Joseph Autran recalled that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dante Sonata
''Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata'' (French for ''After a Reading of Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata''; also known as the Dante Sonata) is a piano sonata in one movement, completed by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1849. It was first published in 1856 as part of the second volume of his ''Années de pèlerinage'' (''Years of Pilgrimage''). This work of program music was inspired by the reading of Victor Hugo's poem “Après un lecture du Dante” (1836). Background The ''Dante'' Sonata was originally a small piece entitled ''Fragment after Dante'', consisting of two thematically related movements, which Liszt composed in the late 1830s. He gave the first public performance in Vienna in November 1839. When he settled in Weimar in 1849, he revised the work along with others in the volume, and gave it its present title derived from Victor Hugo's own work of the same name. It was published in 1858 as part of ''Années de pèlerinage''. Composition The piece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasia Contrappuntistica
''Fantasia contrappuntistica'' is a solo piano piece composed by Ferruccio Busoni in 1910. Busoni created a number of versions of the work, including several for solo piano and one for two pianos. It has been arranged for organ (by Wilhelm Middelschulte, dedicatee of the work, whom Busoni praised as "''Meister des Kontrapunktes''") and for orchestra (by Frederick Stock) under the composer's supervision. The work is in large part a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach's ''Die Kunst der Fuge''. Conversely, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's ''Opus clavicembalisticum'' appears to be a homage to ''Fantasia contrappuntistica''. Sections and Piece analysis ''Fantasia contrappuntistica'' is written in twelve parts, and takes about 25 minutes to perform: #Preludio corale #Fuga I #Fuga II #Fuga III (on B-A-C-H) #Intermezzo #Variazione I #Variazione II #Variazione III #Cadenza #Fuga IV #Corale #Stretta The first ten pages of the introductory "Preludio corale" are nearly identical to the Third Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Blanc Et Noir
''En blanc et noir'' (; en, "In White and Black"), L. 134, CD. 142, is a suite in three movements for two pianos by Claude Debussy, written in June 1915. He composed the work on the Normandy coast, suffering from cancer and concerned about the involvement of France in the Great War. The work is full of personal literary and musical allusions. Each movement comes with a literary motto. In the second movement, Debussy quoted Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" as a symbol of militant Lutheran Germany. The three movements were dedicated respectively to three people: Serge Koussevitzky, Jacques Charlot (an associate of Debussy's publisher who was killed in the war), and Igor Stravinsky. History Debussy composed ''En blanc et noir'' at his vacation residence on the Normandy coast between 4 and 20 June 1915. He was suffering from cancer. France had been at war since 3 August 1914, and emotions were heated against everything German. The work is a late fruit of his experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Mounier
Germaine Mounier (7 February 1920 – 27 June 2006) was a 20th-century French classical pianist and music educator. Biography Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Mounier won First prize at the Conservatoire de Paris. She worked the piano with Yves Nat and Magda Tagliaferro. She entered the École Normale de Musique de Paris, taught in Salzbourg as well as in Bulgaria where she created a ''Concours Albert Roussel''. With pianist Hélène Boschi she formed a duet with a very vast repertoire, recording works by Mozart, Muzio Clementi, Clementi, Debussy and Busoni (disque REM). A great admirer and interpreter of Chopin, Mounier created the ''Festival Chopin'' at the Orangerie of the Parc de Bagatelle in Paris, of which she was Vice-présidente. Among her many students were talents as diverse as Catherine Collard, Françoise Thinat, Véronique Bonnecaze, Erik Berchot, Pavlos Yallourakis, Alexandre Tharaud, Jeffrey Grice, Mathilde Carré, Roumen Kroumov, François Chouchan, Iliana Todorova, Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Boschi
Hélène Boschi ( ; 11 August 19179 July 1990) was a Franco-Swiss pianist, born in Lausanne. She studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Alfred Cortot at the Ecole normale de musique in Paris. Throughout her life she led a dual career as a teacher and as a performer. She played the music of the 20th Century, Bartok, Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Janáček or Martinu. Luigi Dallapiccola dedicated his ''Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera'' (created in 1952), Fernando Lopes-Graça his ''3rd Sonata'' (created in 1954) and Claude Ballif his ''4th Sonata'' (created in 1963). She also gave the first performance of Karel Husa's ''Piano Concertino'' in Brussels (1954) which was dedicated to her. In 1955 Hélène Boschi premiered Jean-Louis Martinet's ''Prelude for Piano and Orchestra'' and in 1964 Louis Durey's ''Six pièces de l'automne 53'' for piano. Hélène Boschi performed Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin, Gabriel Fauré, Franck, Joseph Haydn, W-A Mozart, Robert Schumann. Rameau, K-M von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanja Bizjak
Sanja Bizjak (born 8 September 1988) is a Serbian pianist. Bizjak was born in Belgrade. She began studying the piano at the age of six with Professor Zlata Maleš. At age seven, she played the Joseph Haydn Keyboard Concerto in D with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. At twelve in February 2001, she began studying under Jacques Rouvier at the Conservatoire de Paris. She has won several international awards, including the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev in 2003. In 2004, she was awarded the prize in piano and chamber music at the Paris conservatory with honors unanimously. Since then, she has studied under Alexander Satz training at the conservatory in Graz, Elisso Virsaladze of Munich, as well as that of two pianos Jacques Rouvier. She frequently plays in a duo with her sister Lidija Bizjak,Jean-Pierre Thiollet Jean-Pierre Thiollet (; born 9 December 1956) is a French writer and journalist. Primarily living in Paris, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidija Bizjak
Lidija Bizjak ( sr-Cyrl, Лидија Бизјак, , born 2 August 1976), is a Serbian concert pianist. Early life Born in Belgrade in 1976, Lidija Bizjak began to play the piano at the age of six with Zlata Maleš. 1996 She graduated from the Music Academy in Belgrade in 1996 and then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Jacques Rouvier and Maurice Bourgue, winning first prizes in both piano and chamber music. Meeting Ferenc Rados, Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Arie Vardi, Alexander Lonquich, Ida Levin, Christoph Richter, Ksenija Jankovic, Irena Grafenauer and Sergio Azzolini, was very important for her. 2000 After winning many national competitions, she won a top prize at the 2000 Dublin International Piano Competition, as well as the special prize for the compulsory modern piece. Lidija has given a large number of recitals and performances with orchestra like Orchestre National de France, Britten Sinfonia, RTE Irland, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre de Capitole de T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
