Alec Siniavine

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Alec Siniavine (actually Alexandre Siniavine ; * 4. May 1906 in Odessa ; † 20th September 1996 in Paris ) was a French pianist, composer and orchestra leader in the field of songs and light music .

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Siniavine grew up as a half-orphan in Romania; as a child he took piano lessons. At the age of 18 he attended the Music Conservatory in Bucharest and also lectured in law at the university there. He made his first professional appearances in night clubs and in cabaret. He moved to Paris on a scholarship and initially performed at Café Tabac Pigalle ; he also played weddings and banquets. In the early 1930s he got the opportunity to play on the ocean-going ships of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique . In 1933/34 he worked in Monte Carlo , where he met Germaine and Jean Sablon . Siniavine, who was now a French citizen, played in April 1934 with Django Reinhardt and André Ekyan in a first recording session with Jean Sablon ("Je sais que vous etes jolie", Columbia).

On behalf of the music publisher Raoul Breton , Siniavine wrote the music to a lyrics by Louis Sauvat ("La dernière bergère", English version The Last Shepherdess ); Jean Sablon then recorded “La dernière bergère”; the recording session with Sablon and Reinhardt took place on January 7, 1935. Siniavine's “La dernière bergère” was a huge success for Sablon's career. In the following years he also worked with Edith Piaf , Jeanette MacDonald , André Claveau , Lucienne Delyle , Maurice Chevalier , Danielle Darrieux , Juliette Greco , Patachou , Paul Misraki ("Insensiblement") and Fançois Deguelt . From the late 1930s he performed with music evenings in cabarets such as the Sporting d'été (1938), Carrère (1942 and 1947), Ciro's in Monte-Carlo, in Paris's Les Capucines (1946); In 1953 he opened his own night club with his friend André Claveau.

He also wrote a musical with Jean Delettre ( La belle Saison ) and the music for the show Version française , which premiered in 1950 at the Théâtre de l'Arbalette in Paris (including with the then unknown Louis de Funès ). His songs and compositions also include “J'ai qu'a l'regarder” (1943, with Edith Piaf), “Balançoire”, “Poème d'Amour” (with Yves Allain), “Le Trottoir aux chansons” (with Henri Contet), “Une nuit mon amour” (1949, text by Sergelys), “Lettre d'Ispahan”, “Ce jour tant attendu” (1960, with Charles Aznavour ) “La vagabonde” (with Jean de Lettraz and Jean Delettre ) and "Les dames de la Poste" (with Franci Blache).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to BNF . There is given as the date of birth April 1905.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Biography at Musique en ligne by Yves-Henri Faget
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 31, 2017)
  4. ↑ Le Guide du concert et du disque, edition 174 , ed. by Isabelle Legros, 1957, p. 376
  5. ^ Pierre Duclos, Georges Martin: Piaf . Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1993
  6. ^ Bibliography de la France: Musique. Supplement C Imprimerie J. Dumoulin, 1970, p. 42
  7. ^ Raoul Bellaïche: Aznavour "Non je n'ai rien oublié" . Paris: Edition d'Archipel, 2011, p. 1959
  8. ^ Alain Wodrascka: Barbara, biography intime . City editions 2017
personal data
SURNAME Siniavine, Alec
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siniaine, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1996
Place of death Paris