Bernard Viguerie
Bernard Viguerie (born September 17, 1761 in Carcassonne , † March 1819 in Paris ) was a French musician and composer .
Live and act
Bernard Viguerie grew up in Carcassonne, where he was born. He worked here as a choirboy at the cathedral and learned to play the organ from the local organist Joseph Laguna until he was 22 years old .
Then Viguerie went to Paris with a letter of recommendation to complete his training with Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier , organist at the Church of St-Paul-des-Champs . He also became a piano virtuoso here.
Viguerie began to compose himself, opened a music shop with engraving at Rue Vivienne No. 38 in Paris in 1795 and also published the multiple piano school L'art de toucher le piano-forte .
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Bernard Viguerie composed mainly works for the then modern fortepiano . Several piano concertos , many sonatas , etudes , songs and romances have come down to us .
His glorification of Napoleon and his victory at Marengo on June 14, 1800, called Bataille de Maringo: Pièce Militaire et Historique pour le Forte Piano avec accompagnement de violon et basse (“Battle of Marengo; military and historical piece for piano with Accompaniment of violin and bass ”). It was a very popular program music with spoken subtitles for the course of the battle. Several times the pianist should suddenly throw his outstretched forearm and hand lengthways at the keys in order to bring them all together to the stop and thus imitate the thunder of the cannon. Beethoven imitated this in 1813 for his comparable piece Wellington's Victory , as did Jacques-Marie Beauvarlet-Charpentier (1766–1834), the son of Viguerie's teacher, in 1805 in his Bataille d 'Austerlitz .
literature
- Gustav Schilling : Encyclopedia of the Entire Musical Sciences or Universal Lexicon of Tonkunst. Volume 6, Stuttgart 1838, p. 771. Digital view
- Hermann Mendel : Musical Conversations Lexicon: An encyclopedia of the entire musical sciences. Volume 11, Berlin 1879, pp. 67, 68. Digital view
- Ernst Ludwig Gerber : New historical-biographical lexicon of the Tonkünstler. 4th part, Leipzig 1814, Sp. 447, 448. Digital view
Web links
- Bataille de Maringo by Bernard Viguerie, 1800, on YouTube with an English foreword and spoken text in between
- Piano sonata Opus 2 by Bernard Viguerie, 1794 on YouTube
- Piano sonata Opus 4 by Bernard Viguerie, 1795 on YouTube
- Sonatina Opus 12, by Bernard Viguerie, 1801 on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical website on Joseph Laguna
- ↑ Digital view of the book
- ↑ Herbert Henck : Piano Cluster: History, Theory and Practice of a Sound Shape. LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-82587560-1 , pp. 38-40. Digital view
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Viguerie, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carcassonne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1819 |
| Place of death | Paris |