Alexandre Lagoya
Alexandre Lagoya (born June 29, 1929 in Alexandria , † August 24, 1999 in Paris ) was a classical guitarist.
The son of a Greek father and an Italian mother had guitar lessons from the age of eight, appeared in public for the first time when he was thirteen and had played around 500 concerts by the age of eighteen.
In 1940 he went to Siena to study with Andrés Segovia and then moved to Paris. At one of his first concerts there, he met the guitarist Ida Presti , who was also a student of Segovia. He married her in 1953 and performed with her as a world-famous guitar duo until her untimely death in 1967. They played u. a. the world premieres of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Les guitares bien tempérées , Joaquín Rodrigo's Tonadilla and André Jolivets Sérénade pour deux guitares .
After Presti's death, Lagoya retired from the concert business for five years before resuming his career as a guitar soloist. Many composers have now written works for him, such as Henri Sauguet Trois Preludes , Jacques Charpentier the Concert no.2 , Jean-Michel Damase a ballad pour guitare et cordes and Claude Bolling his Concerto pour guitare .
In addition, Lagoya taught guitar at the Schola Cantorum , gave master classes at the International Music Academy of Nice in the summer and from 1969 led the first guitar class at the Conservatoire de Paris . In 1994 he retired from teaching. He made numerous records as a soloist, played in a duo with Ida Presti and with musicians such as the flautists Jean-Pierre Rampal and James Galway , the violinist Isaac Stern and the jazz pianist Claude Bolling , who also composed for Lagoya, composes jazz piano and percussion has, and appeared on radio and television shows. His preferred guitars were Hopf instruments .
Alexandre Lagoya died in 1999 at the age of 70 and was buried at the Cimetière communal of Montmorency , Département Val-d'Oise , at the side of his wife Ida Presti.
literature
- Reinhard Pietsch and Alexandre Lagoya: "I found an old guitar ... and immediately fell in love with it". Interview with Alexandre Lagoya (Stuttgart, September 19, 1982). In: Guitar & Laute 5, 1983, No. 1, pp. 6-15.
Web links
- Discography at Allmusic
Individual evidence
- ↑ The grave of Alexandre Lagoya. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed October 8, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lagoya, Alexandre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | classical guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandria |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1999 |
| Place of death | Paris |