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Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud International Competition
The Long–Thibaud–Crespin Competition is an international classical music competition for pianists, violinists and singers that has been held in France since 1943. (A Jacques Thibaud Competition was held the year before in Bordeaux: Jacques Thibaud chaired the jury and the First Prize was awarded to Jacques Dejean.) It was created by the pianist Marguerite Long and the violinist Jacques Thibaud. Thibaud died in 1953, Long in 1966. Until 2011 it included only pianists and violinists and was known as the Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud Competition. That year, in honour of the French soprano Régine Crespin (1927–2007), it was expanded to include singers, and renamed. Frequency The competition was initially triennial, but from 1949 it was held biennially. In 1980, it was split into two contests, where pianists compete only against other pianists, and violinists only against other violinists. Previously, violinists and pianists had competed against each other. That y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Dejean
Jacques Dejean (13 December 1919, in Bordeaux – 7 July 2013, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande) was a French classical violinist. Biography His father, Louis Dejean, was a violin teacher and a violinist at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux; his mother, Rose Fino, of Basque origin, was a renowned piano teacher. After a first prize in violin and a first prize in viola at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux in 1936, Dejean entered Jules Boucherit's class at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained the first prize in violin, unanimously "first named". In 1942 he won first prize in the Jacques Thibaud Competition (jury composed of Jacques Thibaud, Jules Boucherit, Gaston Poulet, Jean Fournier, André Asselin and Firmin Touche) the year it was founded in Bordeaux. Concertmaster of many orchestras (Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Concerts Colonne, Orchestre Lamoureux, Pasdeloup Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México), he was also a member of several French string quartets (Tessier Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |