Jean-Joël Barbier (25 March 1920 – 1 June 1994) was a French writer and pianist.
Born in
Belfort
Belfort (; archaic german: Beffert/Beffort) is a city in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Northeastern France, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg, approximately from the France–Switzerland border. It is the prefecture of the Territo ...
, Barbier began studying literature and music with
Blanche Selva
Marie Blanche Selva (Catalan ''Blanca Selva i Henry'', 29 January 18843 December 1942) was a French people, French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Spanish people, Spanish origin.
Biography
Blanche Selva was born in Brive-la-Gaill ...
and
Lazare Lévy
Lazare Lévy
Lazare Lévy, also hyphenated as Lazare-Lévy, (18 January 188220 September 1964) was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe
Europe is a large peninsu ...
but was interrupted by the onset of World War II.
He was a reasonably prolific writer in France, publishing ''A Dictionary of French Musicians'' in 1961 and collaborating with ''La Revue Musicale'' on a frequent basis. As a pianist, he played mostly the works of
French composers
This is an alphabetical list of composers from France.
A–B
* Eryck Abecassis (born 1956)
* Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833–1900)
* Adolphe Adam (1803–1856)
* François d'Agincourt (1684–1758)
* Léopold Aimon (1779–1866)
* ...
such as
Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...
,
Emmanuel Chabrier
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (; 18 January 184113 September 1894) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and pianist. His Bourgeoisie, bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked ...
and
Déodat de Séverac
Marie-Joseph Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (; 20 July 1872 – 24 March 1921) was a French composer.
Life
Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, Haute-Garonne. He descended from a noble family, profoundly influenced by the musical trad ...
. He later recorded the complete piano works of
Erik Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...
and it is for this he is now best known.
He died in Paris.
1920 births
1994 deaths
20th-century French male classical pianists
Writers from Belfort
Musicians from Belfort
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