Suzanne Chaisemartin
Suzanne Chaisemartin (born February 7, 1921 in Choisy-le-Roi , Département Val-de-Marne , † July 7, 2017 in Paris ) was a French organist .
Chaisemartin first took piano lessons from her older sister, who was a student of Yves Nat . She then studied at the Paris Conservatory , where she became a master class student of Marcel Dupré and in 1947 received first prize in the subjects of organ and improvisation. After various positions as organist a. a. at Saint-Lambert de Vaugirard , Saint-Augustin and Saint-Sulpice (as representative of Duprés), she was appointed titular organist of the great Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Saint-Augustin church, succeeding Eugène Gigout , Jean Huré and André Fleury . Later she worked alongside Daniel Roth as organist on the great organ of St-Sulpice .
From 1955 to 1986 Chaisemartin taught, initially as a representative of Rolande Falcinelli at the Conservatoire de Paris. She also taught from 1971 to 1989 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Dijon Conservatory.
As a concert organist, Chaisemartin has performed worldwide. Her repertoire includes organ literature from the Baroque period to contemporary works with a special focus on French organ symphonies. She was the solo organist at Radio France and took a. a. Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach , Dupré, Charles-Marie Widor , Alexandre Guilmant , Franz Liszt , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Robert Schumann , Johannes Brahms and Jean Langlais on record. In 2006 Aeolus released the portrait CD Tribune libre - Suzanne Chaismartin , on which she plays compositions by Widor and Guilmant on the organs of Saint-Sulpice and Saint-Augustin in Paris and Saint-Etienne in Caen, alongside works by her teacher Dupré.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Discography at Allmusic
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chaisemartin, Suzanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Choisy-le-Roi , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th July 2017 |
| Place of death | Paris |