Camille-Marie Stamaty

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Camille-Marie Stamaty (13 March 1811 - 19 April 1870) was a Graeco-French pianist, composer and teacher.

He was born in Rome to a Greek father and French mother. His father died when he was 7, and his mother took him to France. He studied music with Fessy and Friedrich Kalkbrenner, becoming a remarkable pianist. In March 1835 he made his first public appearance in a concert that included his own piano concerto and some other compositions. He was much sought out as a teacher of the piano, but he went to Leipzig to study composition under Felix Mendelssohn for some months. He returned to Paris to the concert stage and introduced many works of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven into his concerts.

His many pupils included Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns.

His works include a great quantity of studies; 12 transcriptions called Souvenir du Conservatoire; sonatas and piano trios. His Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 2 and a set of variations on an original theme (Op. 3) were very highly thought of by Robert Schumann.

In 1862 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur.