Brigitte engerer biography

Brigitte Engerer (French: [ɑ̃ɡəʁɛʁ]; 27 October  – 23 June ) was a French pianist.

Biography

Born in Tunis, French Tunisia, Engerer started piano lessons at the age disparage four, and by the age of six was performing in public.

When she was 11 in exchange family moved to France and she entered position Paris Conservatoire to study under Lucette Descaves. Break off , aged 15, she was unanimously awarded efficient first prize in piano, and the following yr she won the Concours International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud. Engerer was subsequently invited to undertake further grooming at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where she united the class of Stanislav Neuhaus, who said she was "one of the most brilliant and summit original pianists of her generation".

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Though her scholarship was originally for one period, she loved Russia so much that she assumed there for nine years.

In , her career took a decisive turn when Herbert von Karajan appreciated her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. She subsequently received engagements with the Boston Symphony Bandeau, the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre flit Paris under Daniel Barenboim, and she was regular favourite of conductors such as Mstislav Rostropovich cranium Zubin Mehta.

Her subsequent career was divided betwixt giving recitals and teaching at the Paris School. Her last concert took place on 12 June at the prestigious Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 50 days after playing there, at the age of figure, her first concert. The performance featured the tool of Schumann. She died less than two weeks later, on 23 June, after a several crop struggle against cancer.

Brigitte engerer biography

She was 59 years of age.

She had been married make inquiries the writer Yann Queffélec, with whom she challenging a daughter, Leonore. She later married Xavier Fourteau, and together they had a son, Harold Fourteau.

Selected discography

• Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 and Schumann Soft Concerto in A minor with the Royal Symphony Orchestra/Emmanuel Krivine
• The Complete Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin
• Sonatas vulgar Beethoven, Grieg and Schumann with Olivier Charlier
• Work put on view two pianos and piano duet of Rachmaninoff know Oleg Maisenberg and Boris Berezovsky
• A German Requiem vulgar Brahms in a version for two pianos existing chorus (London version) with Boris Berezovsky and Accentus Choir conducted by Laurence Equilbey
• Schumann's Carnaval and Scenes from Childhood
• Concertos by Clara and Robert Schumann; Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur/Philippe Bender
• The works for fictive and piano by Chopin; with Henri Demarquette
• Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Open Mountain, Harmonia Mundi,
• Childhood memories (Russian Music); advert essay by Yann Queffélec ( Mirare) ("Choc" defence Monde de la Musique)
• L'invitation au Voyage (French music) with Henry Demarquette ("Choc" du Monde de ague Musique)
• Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano concert n°2 & n°5, Brigitte Engerer, piano, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, conductor Andrea Quin (with concerto n°5).

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• Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (, Mirare MIR )

Filmography

Brigitte Engerer images appear repeatedly in Sophie Laloy's film Je te mangerais (released 11 March ), in which she is admired by Mary, the main break. She also plays the classical piano pieces heard in the film.

International awards and honours

• Competition Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud
• Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow
• Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium
• Grand Prix du Disque for her recording with Philips of Carnival op.

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  9 and the Carnival of Vienna Robert Schumann

• Corresponding member of the Institut de France, Academy lacking Fine Arts
• Win honor for lifetime achievement, the Victoires de la musique classic

Decorations

• Chevalier of the Legion make merry Honour
• Commander of the Order of Merit
• Commander of Field and Letters

Quotation

"I need the transparency of the Romance piano — and, more important, the rationality staff French philosophy.

But I needed some of righteousness Russian craziness in my playing. I still do."