Joseph Morpain
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 and Monique Haas.
Career
[edit]He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Émile Decombes, a pupil of Frédéric Chopin. Reynaldo Hahn was one of his classmates.[1] He was also a student of Gabriel Fauré.[2]
His own pupils at the Conservatoire and the École Normale de Musique included Clara Haskil,[3] Monique Haas,[4] Lucien Wang,[5] Madeleine de Valmalète,[3] Raymond Trouard,[2] Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert,[6] Pierre Maillard-Verger,[7] and Ramon Coll.[8]
He was acting Director of the École Normale de Musique from 1944.[9]
He published "Comment il faut jouer du piano", and "50 Chansons des Charentes et du Poitou" (1924).[10]
Reynaldo Hahn dedicated the first two of his Premières valses (1898) to Morpain.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ Reynaldo Hahn.net; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ a b jolyon.com; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ a b Free Music Archive; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ allmusic; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ National University of Singapore: Lucien Wang Archived 2014-03-20 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ Classics Online Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ musimem.com; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ simposimompou Archived 2013-08-27 at archive.today; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ Scholawoeks; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ Pierre L. Horn ed., Handbook of French Popular Culture; Retrieved 27 August 2013
- ^ bnf: Reynaldo Hahn bnf; Retrieved 27 August 2013
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