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Marie Panthès (3 November 1871 – 11 March 1955) was a French pianist, specializing in romantic piano, especially the interpretation of the works of
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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 ...
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Life
Panthès was born in Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
(Russian Empire
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) of French parents. She studied the piano at 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 ...
in an upper grade class, then with Henry Fissot and Louise-Aglaé Massart-Masson where she won first prize at the age of 14. In 1897, she toured with the violinist Alexandre Petschnikoff and became famous thanks to numerous European tours.
In 1904, she began teaching at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...
. She then left this post in 1917 because of differences of opinion with the conservatory committee. She moved with her violinist husband, Maurice Darier, to Lausanne
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. She returned to Geneva in 1931 and taught for twenty years at the Conservatoire de musique de Genève. In 1951, she said she stopped because she suffered from a melanoma in her head. In 1954, she began treatment with a cancer specialist in New York, Dr. Revici. She died there on 11 March 1955 at the age of 83. Her grave is located at Cimetière des Rois
The Cimetière des Rois (French: ''Cemetery of Kings'') (officially Cimetière de Plainpalais), is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland. The cemetery is commonly named after la ''rue des Rois'' (French: ''Kings' Street'') near which it is situated. ...
in Geneva.
Among her notable students were Julien-François Zbinden
Julien-François Zbinden (11 November 1917 – 8 March 2021) was a Swiss composer and jazz pianist.
Life
Born in Rolle, Kanton Waadt, Zbinden studied piano in Lausanne and Geneva. He learned musical composition mainly autodidactically, but al ...
, Johnny Aubert
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, Isabelle Nef and Marguerite Roesgen-Champion.
Further reading
* Oscar Thompson (ed.),Nicolas Slonimsky
Nicolas Slonimsky ( – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (russian: Никола́й Леони́дович Сло́нимский), was a Russian-born American conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer. B ...
(ed.): ''The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians'', 4th edition, Dodd, Mead & Company, New York 1946
* Arthur Eaglefield-Hull (ed.) and Alfred Einstein
Alfred Einstein (December 30, 1880February 13, 1952) was a German-American musicologist and music editor. He was born in Munich and fled Nazi Germany after Hitler's ''Machtergreifung'', arriving in the United States by 1939. He is best known for b ...
(transl. and adaptation): "Panthès, Marie", in ''Das Neue Musik-Lexikon. Nach dem Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians''. Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1926, .Online
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Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann (18 July 1849 – 10 July 1919) was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a musi ...
: "Panthès, Marie", in ''Riemann Musiklexikon
The Riemann Musiklexikon (RML), is a music encyclopedia founded in 1882 by Hugo Riemann. The 13th edition appeared in 2012.
History
The Riemann Musiklexikon is the last undertaking of an individual to write a comprehensive encyclopedia in the fi ...
'', 11th edition, Max Hesses Verlag, Berlin 1929, .Online
References
External links
Sketch of Marie Panthès
on Gallica {{DEFAULTSORT:Panthès, Marie 19th-century French women classical pianists Swiss classical pianists Swiss women pianists 20th-century classical pianists Musicians from Odesa 1871 births 1955 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni Deaths from skin cancer French expatriates in the Russian Empire French emigrants to Switzerland