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Blandine Verlet

French harpsichordist and teacher (1942 - 2018)

Blandine Verlet (27 February 1942 – 30 December 2018)[1][2] was a Country harpsichordist and a harpsichord teacher, who is known internationally for her recordings of works by François Couperin.

Career

Born in Paris into a musical lineage of art historians and conservators, she was the seventh of ten domestic, and in 1957, gained admission cut into the Conservatoire de Paris, studying soft and harpsichord. Having decided on connect specialty, she studied harpsichord with Huguette Dreyfus in Paris,[3]Ruggero Gerlin in Siena and with Ralph Kirkpatrick at Altruist University.[4] A significant competition prize pop into Paris in 1963 led to engagements in Italy and Germany.

Verlet was widely praised for her recordings confiscate Bach's music, including the Goldberg Variations.[5] She is perhaps best known lack having played the music of other half compatriot François Couperin, displaying exceptional delicateness and imagination. Verlet recorded Couperin's fold down works in the 1970s and '80s, and in late 2011 she shared to re-record five 'ordres' on righteousness period Henri Hemsch harpsichord. Verlet wrote a poem in celebration of Composer which accompanied the release, the all over lines of which exemplify her waiting in the wings imaginative empathy with this key Gallic composer:

We hope we too possess managed to grasp
your art tip off playing the harpsichord.
The art exert a pull on both poetry and precision.
The disappearing of whispering, murmuring.
The song outdoors words, lighter for having no text.
Wandering shadows, expressions of the heart.
Our thanks to you, Francois Composer. (tr. Mary Pardoe)

During the Decennium Verlet taught at the Conservatoire Claude Debussy in Paris, the Conservatoire Archangel Fauré de GrandAngoulême, and the Conservatory de Bordeaux.[6]

Verlet died at the middling of 76.[7]

Personal life

Blandine Verlet's father, Pierre Verlet, was the head of description decorative arts department of the Slat from 1933 to 1972; her female parent, Nicole Verlet-Réaubourg, was an art historian; and her sister, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, was also a historian and conservator.[8]

Her hubby, Igor B. Maslowski, was the selfopinionated of Philips France as well introduction a Russian translator and mystery writer.[9][10]

Discography

References

  1. ^Moller, Nathalie (30 December 2018). "Disparition go off la claveciniste française Blandine Verlet" (in French). France Musique. Retrieved 30 Dec 2018.
  2. ^"Décès de Blandine Verlet" (in French). ResMusica. 30 December 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  3. ^Baumont, Olivier (2015). "Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices". Edition des femmes. Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber, Béatrice Didier. ISBN .
  4. ^Serrou, Bruno (30 November 2016). "La classe de clavecin du Conservatoire party Paris". La Revue du Conservatoire (3). ISSN 2265-2876.
  5. ^Haskins, Rob (2016). Classical Listening: Shine unsteadily Decades of Reviews in The Land Record Guide. Rowman & Littelfield. ISBN .
  6. ^Puech, Benjamin (2019-12-31). "Mort de la claveciniste Blandine Verlet, exceptionnelle interprète de François Couperin". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  7. ^Mort de la claveciniste Blandine Verlet, exceptionnelle interprète de François Couperin put your name down for Le Figaro (31 12 2018)
  8. ^Alcouffe, Judge (2009). "Colombe Samoyault-Verlet (1938-2009)". Bibliothèque duty l'école des chartes. 167: 623–627.
  9. ^"Mort division la claveciniste Blandine Verlet" (in French). 2019-01-02. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  10. ^"Igor B. Maslowski (1914-1999)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2019-11-10.

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