Agnelle Bundervoët
Agnelle Bundervoët (born October 12, 1922 in Ambert , Puy de Dôme , † February 14, 2015 in Vaucresson ) was a French pianist.
Life
Bundervoët received piano lessons from her mother from the age of four. From 1929 she attended the Conservatoire National de Marseilles . In 1932 her mother introduced her to the pianist and music teacher Lazare Lévy , who immediately accepted her at the Conservatoire de Paris , where she attended his piano class from 1936.
After Lévy was dismissed from the Conservatoire by the Vichy regime in 1940, she continued her training with his assistant Elisa Louise Gabrielle Giraud-Latarse and won first prize in the piano class in 1942. At her request, Lévy dedicated his Thèmes et Variations for piano to her, which she premiered together with works by Jacques de la Presle and Marc Pincherle . The performance was praised by the music critics, albeit with the omission of the work of the Jewish composer Lévy.
After the war, Bundervoët continued her training at the Conservatoire a. a. continued with Jacques de la Presle (harmony) and Maurice Hewitt (chamber music). She also took private organ lessons from Marcel Dupré and singing lessons.
In 1954, the musicologist Alexis Roland-Manuel chose her to play the world premiere of Elsa Barraines' piano concerto. The concert under the direction of the conductor Roger Désormière established her reputation as a competent interpreter of contemporary piano literature. Subsequently, Pierre Capdevielle dedicated his highly complicated serial concert Del Dispetto to her . She was also the dedicatee of Thomas Stubbs ' piano concerto.
She performed under conductors such as Paul Paray , Eugène Bigot , Pierre-Michel Le Conte and Charles Brück and took up in the early 1950s a. a. Busoni's transcription of Bach's chorale "Wake up, call us the voice" and the Chaconne in D minor on record.
Since the mid-1950s, Bundervoët was increasingly affected by a rheumatic disease and increasingly turned to teaching at the Conservatoire National de Versailles . Here u. a. Nicolas Céloro , Laurence Disse , Christine Lagniel , Alain Boulfroy , Philippe Convent , Christine Généraux and Monique Martinelli-Glemein to their students. She also made radio and recordings. Between 1958 and 1960 alone, Decca produced three records with works by Johannes Brahms , Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt . She also composed piano pieces and chamber music.
2016 Label Meloclassic published a CD with French and Swiss radio recordings Bundervoëts from the years 1954-55 and 1976, on which it with the Piano Concerto by Aram Khachaturian , the second piano concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns and et Prelude, Chorale Fugue by César Franck can be heard.
Web links
- Agnelle Bundervoët at Bach Cantatas (English)
- Agnelle Bundervoët on bach-cantatas.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agnelle Bundervoet at Meloclassic
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bundervoët, Agnelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ambert , Puy de Dôme |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 2015 |
| Place of death | Vaucresson |