MARIE JAËLL - FRANCE
BORN 17 AUGUST
Marie (Trautmann) Jaëll (17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart and was the first pianist to perform all the piano sonatas of Beethoven in Paris. She did scientific studies of hand techniques in piano playing and attempted to replace traditional drilling with systematic piano methods. Her students included Albert Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898-99. She died in Paris.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music states that Marie "composed piano pieces and songs which, though essentially Romantic, reveal an assimilation of the innovations of the time." The American Record Guide lists Marie's compositional approach as "romantic in style, with more flavor of the salon than the concert hall."
Marie was well respected, both as a performer and a composer, by her contemporaries. Lea Schmidt-Roger states "Four-handed literature was as much a part of Jaëll's repertory as solo literature. She concertized with duo piano and four-handed pieces from the age of fourteen, and later she and husband Alfred transcribed and performed much of the contemporary four-handed literature."
Marie drew inspiration for her piece "Harmonies d’Alsace" from her childhood memories. She wrote pieces for cello, piano, orchestra, quartets, etc. Marie's variety of compositions extended to a symphonic poem, "Ossiane," which was based on the poems of Jean Richepin and Victor Hugo. She wrote a number of vocal pieces and an opera, Runea.
Source: Wikipedia and Song of The Lark
BORN 17 AUGUST
Marie (Trautmann) Jaëll (17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart and was the first pianist to perform all the piano sonatas of Beethoven in Paris. She did scientific studies of hand techniques in piano playing and attempted to replace traditional drilling with systematic piano methods. Her students included Albert Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898-99. She died in Paris.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music states that Marie "composed piano pieces and songs which, though essentially Romantic, reveal an assimilation of the innovations of the time." The American Record Guide lists Marie's compositional approach as "romantic in style, with more flavor of the salon than the concert hall."
Marie was well respected, both as a performer and a composer, by her contemporaries. Lea Schmidt-Roger states "Four-handed literature was as much a part of Jaëll's repertory as solo literature. She concertized with duo piano and four-handed pieces from the age of fourteen, and later she and husband Alfred transcribed and performed much of the contemporary four-handed literature."
Marie drew inspiration for her piece "Harmonies d’Alsace" from her childhood memories. She wrote pieces for cello, piano, orchestra, quartets, etc. Marie's variety of compositions extended to a symphonic poem, "Ossiane," which was based on the poems of Jean Richepin and Victor Hugo. She wrote a number of vocal pieces and an opera, Runea.
Source: Wikipedia and Song of The Lark
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Impromptu by Marie Jaëll
SUZANNE DANEAU - BELGIUM
BORN 17 AUGUST
Suzanne Laure Daneau (Tournai, August 17, 1901 - there, November 30, 1971) was a Belgian composer and pianist. She was the daughter of composer and music teacher Nicolas Daneau and Laure Joséphine Beatrix Delzenne. Naturally she received her first music education from her father. However, she also studied at the Brussels Royal Conservatory with Paul Gilson. She would dedicate her Prélude élégiaque (1942) to him. She continued her piano studies with Arthur De Greef.
BORN 17 AUGUST
In the meantime, she was able to gain practice during concerts organized by her father and in competitions by Ernest Closson. In 1923 she founded the DGL string trio with Georges Gommaerts and Édouard Livain. Then she performed in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, and they played works by the then new composers such as Vincent d'Indy, Albert Roussel etc. She was also on a number of music juries, sometimes with her father, such as in Brussels 1942.
Source: Diccionaire des femmes belgues and Wikipedia
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Shapes and Forms by Suzanne Daneau
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