Philippe Muller (born 20 April 1946, in

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...

) is a French

cellist The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G2, D3 ...

Biography

Philippe Muller (born April 20, 1946, in Mulhouse) is a French cellist and pedagogue. His first contact with the cello was under the guidance of Dominique Prete, professor at the National School of Music and soloist with the philharmonic orchestra of his native city. His parents, although passionate about music, did not initially think of making him a professional musician, but they did not oppose his desire to attend the Paris Conservatoire. With

André Navarra André-Nicolas Navarra (Biarritz, 13 October 1911 – Siena, 31 July 1988) was a French cellist and cello teacher. Early life He was born into a musical family in Biarritz, his father being a bassist of Italian descent."'Play From The Stomach, ...

, his mentor, Philippe Muller realized the importance of methodical and well-organized work. The years he spends in his class prepare the basis for his own teaching.

Guy Fallot Guy Fallot (1927 – 25 July 2018) was a French cellist born in Nancy. Biography Guy Fallot's father, Paul Fallot – a geologist and professor at the Collège de France – was also a great music lover and played the violin. The mother of Guy ...

and

Paul Tortelier Paul Tortelier (21 March 1914 – 18 December 1990) was a French cellist and composer. After an outstanding student career at the Conservatoire de Paris he played in orchestras in France and the US before the Second World War. After the war he b ...

will complete his training. Philippe Muller has devoted an important part of his career to chamber music. For a long time principal cello of the Versailles Chamber Orchestra, he founded in 1970 a trio with

Jean-Jacques Kantorow Jean-Jacques Kantorow (born 3 October 1945) is a French violinist and conductor. His son is the pianist Alexandre Kantorow. Biography Kantorow was born in Cannes, France, into a family of Russian-Jewish origin. From the age of 13 he studied a ...

and

Jacques Rouvier Jacques Rouvier (born 18 January 1947 in Marseille) is a French pianist. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jean Hubeau, Vlado Perlemuter, Pierre Sancan and later on Jean Fassina. He won two Premiers Prix (first prizes): in piano performanc ...

, which rapidly acquired great national and international renown. In 1976, he joined the

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where he became familiar with the music of his time. He stayed there for seven years. In 1979 he was appointed Professor of cello at the most prestigious

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 ...

, succeeding his teacher André Navarra. A leading figure of the French cello school, he was passionate about teaching and for thirty-five years trained a large number of students, many of whom became renowned soloists. In 2014, reaching retirement age, he emigrated to the United States and accepted a teaching position at the

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in New York City. Aside from his teaching duties, he is also frequently invited to serve as a jury member for the most prestigious international cello competitions, f.e.

Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch The Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch, (Cello Competition Mstislav Rostropovich), is an international cello competition established in 1977 by the city of Paris. See also * List of classical music competitions European Classical music ...

, International Paulo Cello Competition, Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann, Pablo Casals International Cello Competition,

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, George Enescu International Competition, Beijing International Music Competition. In order to maintain a balance between classes and concerts, he performs as a soloist as often as possible and collaborates with numerous ensembles. He is a regular guest in major European, American and Asian cities. His extensive discography, begun in the seventies, reflects his eclectic tastes and his love of chamber music.

Famous cellists having studied with Philippe Muller

Sophia Bacelar,

Emmanuelle Bertrand Emmanuelle Bertrand (born 5 November 1973 in Firminy, Loire), is a French cellist. Biography Bertrand studied with Jean Deplace and Philippe Muller, and received early support from Henri Dutilleux. Nicolas Bacri has dedicated to her his ''Fourth ...

Gautier Capuçon With Jean-Claude Casadesus Gautier Capuçon (born 3 September 1981) is a French cellist. Biography Gautier Capuçon was born in Chambéry, Savoie, the youngest of three siblings. His brother is the violinist Renaud Capuçon. He started learni ...

, Marc Coppey, Blaise Déjardin, Bruno Delepelaire,

Henri Demarquette Henri Demarquette (born 1970) is a French contemporary classical cellist. Life ''"An enthusiastic musician with a multi-faceted personality, Henri Demarquette plays the cello as if setting a deep forest ablaze; not a single stroke of his bow le ...

Katharina Deserno

Ophélie Gaillard Ophélie Gaillard (born 13 June 1974) is a French cellist. Early life Gaillard was born in Paris. While studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, she obtained three first prizes in music: one in chamber music in the class of Maurice Bourgue, one ...

Anne Gastinel Anne Gastinel is a French cellist and professor. She was born on October 14, 1971, in the town of Tassin-la-Demi-Lune. Tassin-la-Demi-Lune is in the south east of France close to Lyon. She has three sisters and one brother. Both of her parents are ...

, Alexander Gebert, Christian-Pierre La Marca, Éric & Yan Levionnois, Hee-Young Lim, Dimitri Maslennikov,

Edgar Moreau Edgar Moreau at the Cité de la musique. Edgar Moreau (born 3 April 1994) is a French classical cellist. Biography Moreau was born in Paris on 3 April 1994. He began studying the cello at age four with Carlos Beyris as well as the piano, the ...

, Kenji Nakagi, Pablo de Naveran, Aurélien Pascal,

Jérôme Pernoo Jérôme Pernoo (born 1972) is a French contemporary cellist. Biography Jérôme Pernoo learned to play the cello with Germaine Fleury then Xavier Gagnepain. After his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with Philippe Muller, he obtained t ...

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Xavier Phillips Xavier Phillips (born 1971 in Paris) is a French contemporary classical cellist, the brother of violinist Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian. Biography Xavier Phillips started learning the cello at the age of 6. He entered the Conservatoire de Par ...

Raphaël Pidoux Raphaël Pidoux (born 1967) is a contemporary French classical cellist. Biography Raphaël Pidoux started studying the cello with his father Roland Pidoux. In 1987 he won the First Prize of the Conservatoire de Paris in Philippe Muller's clas ...

François Salque François Salque is a contemporary French classical cellist. Biography A graduate from Yale University, François Salque teaches at the and at the Conservatoire de Paris. He has played and recorded chamber music with Éric Le Sage, Alexand ...

Camille Thomas Camille Thomas (born May 1988 in Paris, France) is a Franco-Belgian cellist. Biography Camille Thomas began studying the cello at the age of 4. At 10 years old, she studied under Marcel Bardon at the ''Conservatoire national de région de P ...

Dominique de Williencourt Dominique de Williencourt is a French cellist and composer, born in Lille in 1959. Works * ''Abraham and Isaac'', opus 7, for baritone, flute and string orchestra. First performed in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, February 2007 * ...

Sung-Won Yang Sung-Won Yang is a South Korean cellist who performs worldwide as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He studied with Philippe Muller and Janos Starker, and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. He has coll ...

, William Molina Cestari, Johan van Iersel.

Discography

Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

: ''Six sonatas for Cello and Harpsichord Op. 14'' (with Klaus Preis), Da Camera Magna **

Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...

: ''Quartets with flute'' (with András Adorján, Pina Carmirelli, Philipp Naegele), Sastruphon **

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

: ''Serenades'' (avec Pina Carmirelli, Philipp Naegele), Impromptu **

Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

: ''The musical Offering'' (with András Adorján, Johannes Nerokas, Bernd Krakow, Masafumi Hori, Maria Fülöp, Philipp Naegele, Jürgen Wolf), Sastruphon, 1972 **

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Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...

: ''Duets for violin and cello'' (with Pina Carmirelli), Da Camera Magna, 1972 **

: The A''rt of the Fugue'' (with Pina Carmirelli, Maria Fülöp, Philipp Naegele), Sastruphon, 1973 **

: ''Cello Sonatas'' (with Ralf Gothoni), Da Camera Magna, 1975 **''Cello and Organ'' (with Rolf Schönstedt), Da Camera Magna, 1976 ** Paganini, Boccherini: ''Guitare Chamber Music'' (with Rudolf Wangler, Philipp Naegele, Jean-Claude Bouveresse, Marjan Karuza), Da Camera Song, 1976 **''The Art'' of the Cello (with Brigitte Haudebourg, Jacques Rouvier, Henri Wojtkowiak,

), Arion, 1979 **

, ''Works for Cello 2'' (with Ralf Gothoni), Da Camera Magna,1979 **

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera '' ...

: ''Cello Duets'' (with Alain Meunier), 1980 **

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 ...

César Franck César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck (; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in modern-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was p ...

: ''Works for Cello and Piano'' (with Jacques Rouvier), Harmonia Mundi, 1982 ** Michel Merlet: ''Chamber Music'' (with Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Pascal Devoyon), Cybelia, 1983 **

Guy Ropartz Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphony, symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both i ...

: ''Sonatas for cello and piano'' (with Monique Bouvet), Oybella, 1989 **

Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the ...

: ''Florence Gould Hall Chamber Players'' (with Pierre-Henri Xuereb, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Michel Lethiec, Annick Roussin, Alexis Galperine, Fabrice Pierre, Patrick Gallois), OPES 3D, 1993 **

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: ''Arco-I'', Motus, 1999 ** Johan Sebastien Bach: The ''6 Suites for cello solo,'' Passavant Music, 2008 **

Jean Cras Jean Émile Paul Cras (; 22 May 1879 – 14 September 1932) was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea v ...

: ''Chamber Music'' (with Shikiko Tsuruzono, Akiko Nanashima, Jacques Gauthier), Fontec, 2012 In a trio with

and

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

: ''Twentieth century trios'', Da Camera Magna, 1971 *

: ''Trio for piano, violon, cello / Sonata for violon and cello'', Erato, 1975 *

Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...

: ''Trio n°1, Opus 8 in B for piano, violin and cello'', Sarastro, 1977 *

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

: The ''Archduke Trio Opus 97'', Accord, 1978 *

: ''Trios opus 87 (C major), opus 101 (C minor)'' , Accord, 1979 *

Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the s ...

: ''Trio in F minor Opus 8 for piano, violin and cello,'' Da Camera, 1980 *

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

: ''Trio Opus 99'', Forlane, 1982 *

: ''Trout Quintet Opus 114'', (with Vladimir Mendelssohn and Duncan Mc.Tier), Forlane, 1982 *

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 ...

Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...

, Fauré: ''Trios for piano, violin and cello'', Denon, 1993 With the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra *

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...

: ''Concertos for cello'', Sastruphon * George-Philipp Telemann: ''Triple concerto in B flat major, concert in G major, concert suite in D major,'' Da Camera Magna, 1974 Within l'Octuor de Paris *

: ''Octet in F, Opus 166'' (with Jean-Pierre Laroque, Guy Deplus, Gabin Lauridon,Daniel Bourgue, Jean-Louis Bonafous, Gérard Klam, Jean Léber), CGD, 1978 Within l'

: ''

Chansons madécasses ' (''Madagascan Songs'') is a set of three exotic art songs by Maurice Ravel written in 1925 and 1926 to words from the poetry collection of the same name by Évariste de Parny. Structure Scored for mezzo-soprano or baritone, flute, cello and pi ...

'' (with

Jessye Norman Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but refused to be limited to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic, concert ...

, Alain, Marion, Pierre-Laurent Aimard), 1979 *

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

: ''The Transfigured Night, Op.4'' (with Charles-André Linale, Maryvonne Le Dizès, Jean Sulem, Garth Knox, Pierre Strauch)

References

External links

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