Isidore Philipp

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Isidore Philipp

Isidor (also Isidore) Edmond Philipp (born September 2, 1863 in Budapest , Austrian Empire , † February 20, 1958 in Paris ) was a Hungarian pianist and music teacher .

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Isidore Philipp came to Paris as a child. There he studied piano at the Paris Conservatory with Georges Mathias , a pupil of Chopin, and won the final award in 1883. At the conservatory he met Claude Debussy , with whom he remained close friends until his death. He also studied with Camille Saint-Saëns , Stephen Heller and the Liszt student Théodore Ritter . In 1890 he made his debut as a piano soloist in London.

He and Henri Berthelier (1856-1918) on the violin and the cellist Jules Loeb-Leopold (1852-1933), a chamber music - Trio , with which he toured around ten years through Europe. In 1893 Isidore Philipp returned to the Paris Conservatory to teach himself, where he became a full professor in 1903, when he had taken French citizenship, and taught until 1934. He also taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau . His students included Aaron Copland , Guiomar Novaes , Wilfrid Pelletier , Albert Schweitzer , Alexander Tscherepnin , Henriette Puig-Roget , Soulima Stravinski and Beveridge Webster . In 1940 Philipp emigrated to the USA , where he initially settled in Louisville with the support of his former student Dwight Anderson . He later taught in New York and Montreal . In 1955 Philipp gave his farewell concert in Paris at the age of ninety-two.

In 1977, under the umbrella of the American Liszt Society at the University of Louisville, a Philipp Archive was founded which, in addition to Philip's compositions, press reports and photos, includes the autographs of over two hundred letters from Philipp to his students as well as letters from well-known composers such as Ferruccio Busoni , Franz Liszt , Includes Jules Massenet and Camille Saint-Saëns . A five-volume school of piano technique deserves a special mention from his piano pedagogical works.

Compositions

  • Rêverie mélancolique
  • Sérénade humoristique
  • Concertino for 3 pianos
  • Suite pour 2 pianos

Publications

Philipp a publié un certain nombre d'études techniques pour le piano, parmi lesquelles:

  • École du mécanisme (Lyon, Janin et Fils, 1900)
  • Exercices de tenue (Paris, Heugel, 1904)
  • Gradus ad Parnassum (10 fascicules, Paris, Leduc, 1911–1914)
  • Petit Gradus ad Parnassum (Leduc, 1913–1914)
  • Technique journalière du pianiste (Heugel, 1929)
  • Exercices pour l'enseignement moderne du piano (Paris, Salabert, 1933)
  • Nouveaux exercices préparatoires pour l'enseignement supérieur du piano (Paris, Eschig, 1937)
  • Exercices sur les touches noires (Eschig, 1942)

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personal data
SURNAME Philipp, Isidore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipp, Isidor Edmond (full name); Philipp, Isidore Edmond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1958
Place of death Paris