Monique Haas
Monique Haas (born October 20, 1909 in Paris ; † June 9, 1987 there ) was a French pianist .
Life
As the granddaughter of a Palatine , Monique Haas studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy . She taught chamber music to Charles Tournemire , Suzanne Demarquez in harmony and Maurice Emmanuel in music history . She took private lessons from Rudolf Serkin , Robert Casadesus and George Enescu .
After winning the Conservatory's 1st Prize in 1927, she performed as a soloist and duo player with , among others, Pierre Fournier , Francis Poulenc , Igor Stravinski , Paul Hindemith and Enescu, a friend and mentor of her husband. Her repertoire ranged from Bach , Haydn and Mozart to Bartók , Prokofjew and Messiaen . With the exception of Robert Schumann and Chopin's Etudes, she avoided the so-called Romantics . Most of her programs featured François Couperin , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel , whose piano works she recorded in full.
Her international career began in Germany in the post-war period . Her recordings with music of the 20th century became famous. She performed the (unknown) Suite for Piano and Strings (Hindemith) (1940) and - a few days after György Sándor for the first time - Béla Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto . The Études (Debussy) brought a Grand Prix du Disque . She made most of the recordings with Deutsche Grammophon , including the Capriccio for piano and orchestra (Stravinsky) (1950) and the Piano Concerto in G major (Ravel) (1948). On the second recording in 1965, she also recorded the legendary piano concerto for the left hand (Ravel) . Significant recordings were made in the late 1960s and early 1970s with works by Stravinsky, Hindemith, Karl Amadeus Hartmann , Milhaud, Messiaen, Pierre Boulez and her husband Marcel Mihalovici . Milhaud, Florent Schmitt and above all her husband dedicated many works to her.
In 1967 she began to teach at her home conservatory in Paris and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg ; But she did not give up her concerts and recordings. In addition to Deutsche Grammophon, Bertelsmann , Elektra Records and Profil (label) were contractual partners. In 2006, Deutsche Grammophon re-released all of its recordings on eight CDs.
Monique Haas died two years after her husband at the age of 77.
Web links
- Literature by and about Monique Haas in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haas, Monique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1987 |
| Place of death | Paris |