Joseph Morpain (1873 – 12 February 1961) was a French pianist and teacher at the
Conservatoire de Paris and
École Normale de Musique de Paris, whose prominent students included
Clara Haskil
Clara Haskil (7 January 1895 – 7 December 1960) was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire. She was particularly noted for her performances and recordings of Mozart. She was also ...
and
Monique Haas.
Career
He studied at the
Conservatoire de Paris in the class of
Émile Decombes, a pupil of
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...
.
Reynaldo Hahn was one of his classmates. He was also a student of
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...
.
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His own pupils at the Conservatoire and the
École Normale de Musique
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Sav ...
included
Clara Haskil
Clara Haskil (7 January 1895 – 7 December 1960) was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire. She was particularly noted for her performances and recordings of Mozart. She was also ...
,
[ Monique Haas, Lucien Wang, Madeleine de Valmalète,][Free Music Archive]
Retrieved 27 August 2013 Raymond Trouard
Raymond Trouard (9 August 1916 – 17 December 2008) was a French classical pianist.
Life
Born in Étampes, Trouard had André Bloch, Joseph Morpain, Victor Staub, Emil von Sauer, Marcel Dupré, Paul Dukas, Philippe Gaubert and Bruno Walter ...
,[ Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert, Pierre Maillard-Verger, and Ramon Coll.
He was acting Director of the École Normale de Musique from 1944.
He published "Comment il faut jouer du piano", and "50 Chansons des Charentes et du Poitou" (1924).
Reynaldo Hahn dedicated the first two of his ''Premières valses'' (1898) to Morpain.bnf: Reynaldo Hahn bnf]
Retrieved 27 August 2013
References
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1873 births
1961 deaths
20th-century French male classical pianists
French music educators
Piano pedagogues
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris