Maurice Andre

Maurice André is a traditional Trompettiste , born with Alès the May 21st 1933 in a family of minors. It goes down to the mine from 14 to 18 years, while starting to study the trumpet, with like first professor his father, large in love with classical music.

With the Conservatoire of Paris, where it enters in 1951 after being committed, he is the pupil of Sabarich and obtains a first price of honor of horn and a first price of trumpet. Quickly, it is essential like the outstanding figure of a generation of French trumpet players: it is trumpet solo with the concerts of the Orchestre Lamoureux (1953-1960), with the Philharmonic orchestra of the ORTF (1953-1963) and with the Op3era Comique (1962-1967).

He plays in Soliste and its career takes an international rise with the prices which he gains with the contests of Geneva (1955) and of Munich (1963). Of 1967 with 1978, he is professor with the Academy of Paris, where he introduces the small trumpet for the repertory baroque. It forms there more than one hundred trumpet players, among whom Bernard Soustrot, Guy Touvron, Eric Aubier, Thierry Caens, Luc Capouillez.

Its legacy discographic is important: it counts more than 250 recordings including nearly 50 realized with the chamber orchestra Jean-François Paillard.

Maurice André considerably made evolve/move the play of the trumpet, which became, thanks to him, an instrument virtuoso, but especially, a melody instrument . Good number of works traditional baroques and , fallen into the lapse of memory because of their technical difficulty (almost exclusive use of the acute Tessiture S) were ressuscitées thanks to him.

He worked, while basing himself on a prototype of the Fifties, in close connection with a famous mark (Selmer) which manufactures, on its directives, a trumpet piccolo in acute B flat with four pistons especially adapted to this repertory.

The trumpet knows, thanks to him, a new popularity which involves many followers in his wake. It also caused new partitions: concertos of Henri Tomasi, Boris Blacher and Marcel Landowski, Heptade and Arioso barocco of Andre Jolivet, works of Antoine Tisné, German Tailleferre and Jean-Claude Éloy. Under its impulse, the trumpet found the noble letters which it had acquired at the 18th century and the French school was essential like most important of the end of the 20th century.

Lack means at the beginning of its career, its first recordings were carried out with a rhythmic structure synthesized like accompaniment.

He lived many years with Presles-in-Brie where the public school bears its name in its homage.

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Site dedicated to Maurice Andre

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