Émile Prudent
Émile Prudent (born April 4, 1817 in Angoulême , † 1863 in Paris ) was a French pianist, composer and music teacher.
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Émile Prudent, who was entered in the Angoulême birth registry under the name Gautier-Racine , received his first piano lessons from his uncle, the organist of Angoulême Cathedral, Claude Victor Prudent . From 1826 he attended the Conservatoire de Paris . There he was a piano student of Pierre Zimmermann and received the first prize in the piano subject in 1833.
After Prudent had seen the Austrian piano virtuoso Thalberg at his concerts in Paris in 1835, he perfected his playing technique based on his model and in 1837 began a career as a traveling piano virtuoso.
In addition to more than twenty piano arrangements of popular contemporary operas, Prudent composed numerous mostly technically demanding piano pieces.
Works
- Fantaisie sur Lucie de Lammermoor de Donizetti
- Feu follet
- Etude
- Grande Fantaise sur les Huguenots de Meyerbeer
- Caprice-étude de concert sur la Somnambule de Bellini
- Fantaise sur la Dame Blanche de Boieldieu
- Caprice-étude sur I puritani
- Les Bois, chasse
- La danse des Fées
- Le Retour des bergers
- Romances sans Paroles
- La Prairie
- Le Rêve d'Ariel
- Fantaisie sur la Traviata de Verdi
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prudent, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pianist, composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Angoulême |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1863 |
| Place of death | Paris |