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Alphonse Duvernoy (Professor of Piano) Rolande Falcinelli (Professor of Organ, 1954–1986) Louise Farrenc (Professor of Piano, 1842–1873) César Franck (Professor of Organ, 1872–1890) Eugene Gigout (Professor of Organ, 1911–1925) Alexandre Guilmant (Professor of Organ, 1896–1911) Antoine Marmontel (piano) Yves Nat (pianist, 1890–1956)
Arthur Benjamin . Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 in Sydney – 10 April 1960 in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.
Teacher of both Mozart and Beethoven. Zoltán Kodály, twentieth century Hungarian composer. Composed a Missa Brevis, a Te Deum, and Psalmus Hungaricus. Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli An Italian-Australian who composed secular and liturgical works. Franz Liszt, famed pianist and Romantic composer, mostly of piano works. He became a Franciscan tertiary.
Gordon Charles Watson was born in Parkes, New South Wales in 1921. He served with the Australian Imperial Force for four years in World War II. [1]He studied piano under Laurence Godfrey Smith in Sydney, and later had advanced studies at Mills College, Oakland, California with Egon Petri (piano), [2] [3] [4] and Darius Milhaud (composition).
Fleisher was born on July 23, 1928, in San Francisco, the son of poor Jewish immigrants Bertha and Isidor Fleisher. His father was from Odessa and his mother from Poland. [1] [2] [3] His father's business was hat-making, while his mother's goal was to make her son a great concert pianist. [1]
The modern form of the piano, which emerged in the late 19th century, is a very different instrument from the pianos for which earlier classical piano literature was originally composed. The modern piano has a heavy metal frame, thick strings made of top-grade steel, and a sturdy action with a substantial touch weight.
Abby Whiteside (Aug 27, 1881 Vermillion, South Dakota – Dec 10, 1956 Menlo Park, California [1]) was an American piano teacher. She challenged the finger-centric approach of much classical piano teaching and instead advocated a holistic attitude in which the arm and torso are the conductors of a musical image conceived first in the mind.
Margaret Allison Bonds (March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972) [1] was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher.One of the first Black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States, she is best remembered today for her popular arrangements of African-American spirituals and frequent collaborations with Langston Hughes. [2]