Aristide Farrenc
| Jacques Hippolyte Aristide Farrenc | |
|---|---|
| Born |
9 April 1794 Marseille, France |
| Died |
31 January 1865 (aged 70) Paris |
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Aristide Farrenc (9 April 1794 – 31 January 1865[1]) was a French flautist, musicologist and music publisher.
Biography
Aristide Farrenc worked as a flautist at the Théâtre italien and founded a company of musical editions which he left in 1841 to devote himself to musicology.[1]
The most famous work published by Farrenc, in collaboration with his wife, is the Trésor des pianistes[1][2] in 20 deliveries (1861–1872), containing many works of early music for harpsichord (Couperin, Bach, Haendel, Scarlatti, Rameau, CPE Bach etc.), and classical sonatas for pianoforte such as those by Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, Weber and Beethoven, and even Chopin.
His wife Louise Farrenc was a virtuoso pianist, an esteemed teacher and also a recognized composer. After the death of her husband in 1865 she continued the publication of the Trésor des pianistes until the 20th and last volume in 1872. Three additional volumes also appeared, but containing the music already published of the first half of the nineteenth century (Hummel, Ries, Weber, Mendelssohn and Chopin).
Works
- Les Concerts historiques de M. Fétis à Paris,[3] Paris, 1855.
- Le Trésor des pianistes,[4][5] Paris, 1861; New York, 1977.
References
- 1 2 3 Honegger, Marc (1979). Dictionnaire de la musique; Tome 1, Les Hommes et leurs œuvres. A-K (in French). Bordas. p. 332. ISBN 2-0401-0721-5.
- ↑ Trésor des pianistes on Gallica
- ↑ Les Concerts historiques de M. Fétis à Paris on WorldCat
- ↑ Le Trésor des pianistes
- ↑ Le Trésor des pianistes on pianorarescores.com
External links
- Free scores by Aristide Farrenc at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), including the complete series Le Trésor des Pianistes.
- Aristide Farrenc on MusOpen
- Aristide Farrenc on idref.fr