Aline van Barentzen (born Aline Hoyle; 17 July 1897 – 30 October 1981) was a Franco-American classical pianist.
Biography
Van Berentzen was born in
Somerville, Massachusetts
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and gave her first concert at the age of four. At a young age, her mother took her to Paris to pursue formal music training. At age seven, she played Beethoven's ''
Piano Concerto No. 1'' and, at nine, she entered the
Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
.
[.] There, her teachers were
Marguerite Long
Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long (13 November 1874 – 13 February 1966) was a French pianist, pedagogue, lecturer, and an ambassador of French music.
Life
Early life: 1874–1900
Marguerite Long was born to Pierre Long and Anne Marie Antoin ...
, Mrs. Marcou and
Élie-Miriam Delaborde
Élie-Miriam Delaborde (born Eraïm-Miriam Delaborde; 7 February 18399 December 1913) was a French virtuoso pianist and composer. He was also renowned as a player of the pedal piano.
Life
His birth was registered under the name of his mother L ...
.
In 1909, at only eleven years of age, she was awarded a
First Prize at the Paris Conservatory piano competition, a record that still holds today (''
Le Matin'' 10 July 1909):
She then continued her training with
Heirich Barth and
Ernst von Dohnanyi in Berlin, where she also met young
Arthur Rubinstein and
Wilhelm Kempff
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (25 November 1895 – 23 May 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Although his repertoire included Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well known for his interpretations ...
. She completed her training in Vienna with
Theodor Leschetizky
Theodor Leschetizky (sometimes spelled Leschetitzky, pl, Teodor Leszetycki; 22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915 was an Austrian- Polish pianist, professor, and composer born in Landshut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land of ...
.
She eventually settled in Paris, where she was surrounded by many prominent musicians and composers of the time. She played works by
Enesco
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,
Poulenc,
Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonicall ...
,
Roussel and
Heitor Villa-Lobos. On 24 October 1927, she premiered Villa-Lobos' ''
Chôros No. 8'' (composed in 1925 for two pianos and orchestra) at the
Concerts Colonne
The Colonne Orchestra is a French symphony orchestra, founded in 1873 by the violinist and conductor Édouard Colonne.
History
While leader of the Opéra de Paris orchestra, Édouard Colonne was engaged by the publisher Georges Hartmann to lead ...
in Paris with , under the direction of the composer.
She gave concerts throughout Europe and recorded for
His Master's Voice
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.
In the early 1930s, she applied for and obtained French citizenship, remaining in Paris through the
Occupation
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.
Van Barentzen taught throughout her life, first at the
University of the Arts (Philadelphia)
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and the
Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música (Argentina).
In 1954, she was appointed professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory, a position she held until 1967.
Among her pupils were
Jean-Philippe Collard, Bernard Job and
Cyprien Katsaris
Cyprien Katsaris ( el, Κυπριανός Κατσαρής; born 5 May 1951) is a French- Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer. Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil o ...
.
She premiered works by
Henri Martelli (''Fantaisie sur un thème malgache'', 1946),
Florent Schmitt
Florent Schmitt (; 28 September 187017 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are ''La tragédie de Salome'' and ''Psaume XLVII'' (Psalm 47). He has been described as "one of th ...
(''Hasards'', 1943), and Villa-Lobos' (''
A prole do bebe n°2'', ''
Chôros No. 8'', 1925).
She also composed for piano under her birth name, Aline Hoyle.
She died in the
16th arrondissement of Paris on 30 October 1981.
Discography
Selected recordings:
*
De Falla - ''Noches en los Jardines de España'' - Orchestre Symphonique (7 June 1928, Gramophone W 938/40a Matrice CT 4031/35 R).
* De Falla - ''Andaluza'' (''Piezas Españolas'' n°4) (11 June 1928, Gramophone W 940b Matrice CT 4050
* Beethoven's ''
Piano Sonata No. 21'', Op. 53, ''
Piano Sonata No. 23'', Op. 57 (La Voix de son Maître FALP199)
* At Trianon in 1961: Daquin, Le Coucou; Rameau, ''La Poule''; Mozart's Rondo à la turque (de la Sonate K.331); Beethoven's ''
Für Elise
Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor ( WoO59, Bia515) for solo piano, commonly known as "Für Elise" (, ), is one of Ludwig van Beethoven's most popular compositions. It was not published during his lifetime, only being discovered (by Ludwig Nohl) 40 ye ...
''; K.M. Weber, ''Perpetuum mobile'' (from Sonata Op. 24); Schubert's Mouvement musical D.780/3; Mendelssohn's 3 Chansons sans paroles; Schumann's ''Dreaming'' Op. 15/7 (from ''
Kinderszenen
' (, "Scenes from Childhood"), Op. 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838.
History and description
Schumann wrote 30 movements for this work but chose 13 for the final version. The unused mo ...
''); Chopin's ''
Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2''; Liszt's ''
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2'', ''
Liebestraum No. 3''; Brahms's ''
Valz Op. 39/15''; Debussy's ''Clair de lune'' (3rd mvt of the ''
Suite bergamasque''); Ravel's ''Rigaudon'' (''
Le Tombeau de Couperin
''Le Tombeau de Couperin'' (''The Couperin's Grave'') is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the mem ...
'') ; Poulenc's ''
Mouvement perpétuel n°1''; Villa-Lobos, ''O Polichinelo''.
Sound documents:
* Beethoven's ''
Choral Fantasy'' - Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion, conductor
Roger Désormière
Roger Désormière () (13 September 1898 – 25 October 1963) was a French conductor. He was an enthusiastic champion of contemporary composers, but also conducted performances of early eighteenth century French music.
Life and career
Désormièr ...
, in public and broadcast from the
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 20 May 1948.
* ''Cortège Burlesque'', last movement of the piano concerto (''Concert dans un Parc'') by
André Lavagne.
Bibliography
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References
External links
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Aline van Barentzen plays Villa-Lobos A Prole do Bebê (complete, 1957)-YouTube)
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1897 births
1981 deaths
20th-century French women classical pianists
American emigrants to France
Women music educators
Conservatoire de Paris faculty