Jean Dansereau

Jean Dansereau (actually: Hector Dansereau ; born April 21, 1891 in Verchères , † November 2, 1974 in Yorktown Heights , New York ) was a Canadian pianist and music teacher.

Life

Danserau received first piano lessons from his mother, a cousin of Calixa Lavallée, and was then a student of Angéline Normandin-McNamara and at the McGill Conservatory of Walter Hungerford . In 1913 he played with the McGill University Orchestra , the First Piano Concerto by Tchaikovsky .

In 1914 he received the Prix ​​d'Europe from the government of Québec and studied in Paris with Isidore Philipp , Édouard Risler and Charles-Marie Widor . From 1920 he worked as a companion to Mary Garden , Rodolphe Plamondon and Oscar Seagle , with whom he toured Europe and North America. 1924-25 he was employed as a companion in the studio of Jean de Reszke .

He then performed as a pianist in North America and Europe until he went to Vienna in 1936, where he worked with Emil von Sauer . To mark his return to Canada he introduced in 1936, the Third Piano Concerto of Beethoven with the Orchester des Concerts Symphonique de Montréal on. In the following years he established himself as a successful concert pianist in Canada and the USA, later also in Brazil, where he lived from 1942 to 1943 and gave weekly radio concerts in Rio de Janeiro for three months.

In 1926 and 1929 Danserau recorded songs in two record series with the soprano Mary Garden , and in 1953 he recorded a program with works by Chopin and Debussy .

Since 1941 Dansereau has taught at the École Vincent-d'Indy and since 1943 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec . His students included Jocelyn Binet , Auguste Descarries , Anna-Marie Globenski , Jeanne Landry , Clermont Pépin , Stella Plante and Madeleine Raymond .

Web links

• Guy Gallo: Dansereau, Jean. The Canadian Encyclopedia (English / French)