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    Alfred Denis Cortot (core-TOE; 26 September 1877 – 15 June 1962) was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical...
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    The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The school was founded...
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  • Cortot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Cortot (1877–1962), French pianist, conductor, and teacher Jean-Pierre Cortot (1787–1843)...
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    cites, in addition to his mentor and teacher Edwin Fischer, pianists Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Kempff, and the conductors Bruno Walter and Wilhelm Furtwängler...
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  • at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris under the virtuoso Alfred Cortot, and it has been said that she later played in a promenade concert;...
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    that Fauré fully emerged from any predecessor's shadow. The pianist Alfred Cortot said, "There are few pages in all music comparable to these." The critic...
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    by many musical figures of the 20th century, namely Yehudi Menuhin, Alfred Cortot, Nadia Boulanger, and Francis Poulenc. Constantin Lipatti (from childhood...
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  • – 19 November 2023) was a French classical pianist who studied with Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger. She began recording in her 90s, with a preference...
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    excuse for other musicians to make slight alterations in the score. Alfred Cortot created his own orchestration of the F minor concerto and recorded it...
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    Decombes (1829–1912) studied with teachers including Frédéric Chopin. Alfred Cortot [pupils] Reynaldo Hahn Joseph Morpain Maurice Ravel [pupils] Édouard...
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    Chopin's "Impromptus" and Schubert's "Litanei" performed by pianist Alfred Cortot at Victor's studios in Camden, New Jersey. A 1926 Wanamaker's ad in...
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    Project Op. 10, No. 12 played by Ignaz Friedman Op. 10, No. 12 played by Alfred Cortot Op. 10, No. 12 played by Arthur Rubinstein Op. 10, No. 12 played by...
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    recorded its first electrical Red Seal disc, twelve inch 6502 by pianist Alfred Cortot, of works by Chopin and Schubert. In 1926, Johnson sold his controlling...
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    Berceuse from Dolly The Berceuse, in a transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot Problems playing this file? See media help. Fauré wrote or revised the...
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    Pachmann 1921 Sir Henry Wood 1922 Sir Alexander Mackenzie 1932 (??) Alfred Cortot 1925 Frederick Delius Sir Edward Elgar 1928 Sir Thomas Beecham 1930...
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    Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and Alfred Flechtheim. In 1927 he moved to Paris, which he thereafter considered to...
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  • Littlejohn, DL). She showed early promise as a pianist and studied under Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire in the 1920s. Her musical career was cut...
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    sister. Since the Conservatoire Femina-Musica had closed during the war, Alfred Cortot and Auguste Mangeot founded a new music school in Paris, which opened...
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    Project Ballade No. 1 played by Josef Hofmann Ballade No. 1 played by Alfred Cortot Ballade No. 1 played by Benno Moiseiwitsch Ballade No. 1 played by Arthur...
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  • Leonid Kogan. A version for piano duet by the pianist and composer Alfred Cortot has been recorded several times, who also made a version for solo piano...
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    Victor label). Back in Paris, Casals organized a trio with the pianist Alfred Cortot and the violinist Jacques Thibaud; they played concerts and made recordings...
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  • received a Fulbright grant to study in Paris, where he had lessons with Alfred Cortot. He performed concerts throughout Europe as well as in Japan, Latin...
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    Project Op. 25, No. 11 played by Josef Lhévinne Op. 25, No. 11 played by Alfred Cortot Op. 25, No. 11 played by Claudio Arrau Op. 25, No. 11 played by Sviatoslav...
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    with Mithat Fenmen [tr], who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament enacted a special law which...
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    (1905) she entered the Conservatoire de Paris, officially to study with Alfred Cortot although most of her instruction came from Lazare Lévy and Mme Giraud-Latarse...
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    performers prefer to decline the invitation, some pianists such as Alfred Cortot, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Marc-André Hamelin have produced notable cadenzas...
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  • escaped not long after) and that she studied under the virtuoso pianist Alfred Cortot. Bennett returns home, to find Shepherd back in her van. She had been...
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    finger crossings, thus facilitating a quicker tempo. French pianist Alfred Cortot (1877–1962) states that the main difficulty to overcome is "regularity...
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    Generation. HarperCollins.) However, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vladimir Horowitz, Alfred Cortot, Walter Gieseking, and Mitsuko Uchida included it in their recordings...
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    EMG review April 1955 (DGG LP 16029) Charles Panzéra (baritone) with Alfred Cortot (HMV DB 4987–89). Ian Partridge with Jennifer Partridge, 1974 (CfP CD...
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