Louis Brassin (composer)
Louis Brassin , Russian Луи Брассен (* 24. June 1840 in Aachen , † May 5. . Jul / 17th May 1884 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Belgian pianist , composer and music teacher.
Live and act
Louis Brassin, the son of the opera singer Louis Brassin (around 1811–1880), gave his first concert at the age of six in Hamburg. A year later his father had a job in Leipzig and Louis attended the conservatory there as a student of Ignaz Moscheles . The then eight-year-old gave a memorable concert in Stade in 1848 , where he performed together with his five-year-old brother Leopold, whom he had taught to play the piano himself. In 1857 he gave concerts for the first time in Belgium under the stage name Brassin . From 1866 he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. After being appointed piano professor at the Brussels Conservatory , he settled in Belgium for ten years in 1869, where he played an important role in the country's musical life. In 1878 he took over the piano class from Theodor Leschetizky at the St. Petersburg Conservatory .
Brassin arranged numerous Richard Wagner pieces for piano and wrote many smaller piano pieces that have largely been forgotten today. Edgar Tinel and Wassili Sapelnikow are among his students .
His brothers Leopold Brassin (1843–1890) and the violinist Gerhard Brassin (1844 – after 1915) went on many concert tours together; they taught at the Stern Conservatory, but also in Bern. Both left mainly compositions for their instrument.
Works
- 2 piano concerts
- The German operetta The Crown Prince and The missionary
Piano works
- Première grande polonaise pour piano .
- Deuxième grande polonaise pour piano .
- 3eme grande polonaise pour piano .
- Feuillet d'album (album sheet) pour le piano .
- Étude de concert (Ut majeur) pour le piano .
- Impressions d'Automne (Autumn impressions.) Trois etudes pour le Piano .
- Menuet, Gavotte et Gigue pour le Piano .
- Polka de la Princesse pour le piano .
- Sérénade .
- Rêverie pastorale pour le Piano .
- Rêverie pour le Piano .
- Second Galop fantastique de Concert .
- Les Adieux, morceau caractéristique pour piano .
- Grandes Etudes de Concert pour le Piano . Op. 12 [No. 1-6].
- Mazurka de Salon pour Piano . Op. 14th
- Au clair de la lune, Nocturne pour piano . Op. 17th
- Deuxième grand polonaise . Op. 18th
Edits
- 3 Morceaux pour le Piano d'apres D. Scarlatti .
- From R. Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . No. 1. Valhalla, No. 2. Siegmund's Liebesgesang, No. 3. Fire Magic, No. 4. The Ride of the Valkyries, No. 5. Forest weaving for the pianoforte transferred freely from L. Brassin.
- Toccata in D minor [BWV 565] for organ by Joh. Seb. Bach (Bach's authorship is in doubt today); for pianoforte for concert performance arranged by Louis Brassin.
- Choeur des soldats de l'opéra Faust de Gounod , Transcription de concert pour piano Op. 27.
Student (selection)
- Arthur De Greef
- Gennari Karganov
- Vasily Ilyich Safonov
- Vasily Lvovich Sapelnikov
- Edgar Tinel
- Alfred Wotquenne
Web links
- Works by and about Louis Brassin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Louis Brassin (composer) in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brassin, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Брассен, Луи (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian pianist, composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1884 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |