Antoine François Marmontel

Antoine François Marmontel is a Pianiste, Pédagogue and Musicographe French, born with Clermont-Ferrand the July 16th 1816 and died with Paris the January 17th 1898.

Biography

In 1827, it enters to the Conservatoire of Paris to become the pupil of Pierre Zimmermann (piano), Victor Dourlen (harmony), Jacques Fromental Halévy (running away) and Jean-François Lesueur (composition). It obtains the first two prices (musical theory and piano). In 1837, he becomes assistant of musical theory to the Academy. In 1848, it succeeds Zimmermann and acquires a great fame of effective and imaginative pedagog. It trains many pupils of which Georges Bizet, Vincent d' Indy, Theodore Dubois, Ernest Guiraud, Emile Paladhile, Louis Diémer, Francis Planté and Claude Debussy.

Its course is marked out of a great number of didactic works (nearly 200 numbers of opus) as well as many characteristic parts (night, lovesongs, etc). It, in particular, published: Art to decipher (hundred easy studies); Elementary school of mechanism and style (24 studies, 1847); Study of mechanism ; Five studies of living room ; Art to decipher with four hands (1847); progressive and rational Teaching of the piano (1887).

Its work musicographic counts among the best sources of the history of the piano and the pianists particularly for the 19th century among which: Symphonists and virtuosos (1880), famous Pianists (1878), contemporary Virtuosos (1882), Elements of musical esthetics and considerations on the beautiful one in arts (1884), and History of the piano and its origins (1885). Marmontel saw ravelling at his place, during all its life, the pianists of whole Europe during the weekly sessions which it organized where the kind of the trio with piano was particularly with the honor.

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