Magda Tagliaferro
Magda Tagliaferro (born January 19, 1893 in Petrópolis , † September 9, 1986 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Franco-Brazilian pianist of German descent.
Tagliaferro had first lessons from her father, a student of Raoul Pugno and professor of singing and piano. In 1906 she came to France with her family and became a student at the Conservatoire de Paris . She studied there with Antonin Marmontel and was supported by Gabriel Fauré , director of the Conservatoire.
After studying at the Conservatoire, she became a student of Alfred Cortot . She performed with Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals , played piano duos with Édouard Risler and Gabriel Fauré and worked as a chamber musician with the violinist Jules Boucherit . She went on two concert tours with George Enescu . In Paris she performed at the Salon Polignac , where musicians such as Clara Haskil and Jacques Février could also be heard. She was known to Maurice Ravel , Vincent d'Indy , Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud and was friends with Reynaldo Hahn , who dedicated his concerto for piano and orchestra to her.
Before Franco came to power , she made several tours through Spain. She received the Grand Prix du Disque for the world's first recording of a work by Frederic Mompou . She also made the first recording of Fauré's ballad for piano and orchestra. Heitor Villa-Lobos dedicated her Momoprecoce , a fantasy for piano and orchestra, which she premiered in Paris in 1929 and recorded with the composer on record in the 1950s.
From 1937 to 1939 Tagliaferro taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. The playing technique she taught her students became known as the Tagliaferro Technique . During the Second World War she first went to the USA, where she a. a. performed at New York Town Hall and Carnegie Hall (under John Barbirolli ), and then to Brazil. There she gave concerts in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and founded her own music school. Under her guidance, her assistants Nellie Braga , Lina Pires de Campos , Edda Fiore , Maria Eliza Figueiredo , Zulmira Elias José , Georgette Pereira , Menininha Lobo and Helena Plaut trained a whole generation of young pianists.
In 1949 Tagliaferro returned to Paris. She refused to succeed Cortot at the École Nationale de Musique and instead founded her own music school. She also founded the Magda Tagliaferro International Piano Competition , of which her student Cristina Ortiz was one of the winners , and she was a juror at the famous Chopin Competition in Warsaw on several occasions . Her students included u. a. the Brazilians Flavio Varani , Cristina Ortiz , Caio Pagano , Daisy de Luca , Eudóxia de Barros and Isabel Mourão as well as Pnina Salzman , Jorge Luis Prats , James Tocco and Daniel Varsano .
At the suggestion of the music critic Harold Schonberg , Tagliaferro was invited to a concert at Carnegie Hall in 1979, where she played Schumann's Carnaval with great success . Schonberg wrote: “This listener honestly doesn't remember when he has more enjoyed a Carnaval. In its improvisatory quality, its infallible rhythm and perfect pacings, it was the essence of Schumann. ” At the age of 90, she performed in a concert in London's Wigmore Hall in January 1983, an event that the BBC recorded on tape. At the same time she and her student Daniel Varsano made a recording of Fauré's Dolly Suite and his ballad in a version for two pianos, which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque . She gave her last public concert at the age of 92, a year before her death.
François Reichenbach made a documentary about Tagliaferro, which was still unfinished at the time of her death, but was shown in France and Brazil under the title Magda Noble et Sentimentale . The Fundação Magda Tagliaferro maintains a museum in São Paulo and awards grants to talented young musicians.
Web links
- Fundação Magda Tagliaferro website (Portuguese) - with detailed information
- Magda Tagliaferro near naxos (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 88 notes pour piano solo , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Neva Editions, 2015, p. 51. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tagliaferro, Magda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petrópolis |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1986 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |