Émile Decombes
Émile Decombes (9 August 18295 May 1912) (also seen as Descombes) was a French pianist and teacher. Decombes was born in Nîmes. Little is known about his life other than that he was one of the last pupils of Frédéric Chopin in Paris.
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Émile Decombes
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- 1829 · Nîmes.
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- France
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- pianist · composer · music educator
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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He taught piano (the "classe préparatoire") at the Paris Conservatoire between 1875 and 1899, where his students included Alfred Cortot, Édouard Risler, Reynaldo Hahn, Gabriel Jaudoin, Joseph Morpain, Maurice Ravel, and Erik Satie (Decombes called him "the laziest student in the Conservatoire"). Besides his teaching, Decombes was also active as the editor of a series of piano arrangements of classical piano concertos called the École du Piano – Choix de Concertos des Maîtres. Premiers Solos, which appeared with the Parisian publisher Auguste O'Kelly from 1875. It had reached 50 volumes by 1888. The series was continued by O'Kelly's successor Mackar & Noël. Decombes died in Paris in 1912, aged 82.
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Émile Decombes born at Nîmes.
1912
Émile Decombes died at Paris.
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- 1.Photo caption. Retrieved 10 February 2015
- 2.Catalogue of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14813861f/PUBLIC
- 3.Day, Timothy. A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History. Yale University Press. 148. 2002. 0-300-09401-9.
- 4.Reynaldo Hahn - œuvres musicales - Juvénilia (1890-1893). Reynaldo Hahn.
- 5.Zank, Stephen. Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research. Routledge. 2013. 978-1-135-17351-7.
- 6.Orledge, Robert. Satie the Composer. Cambridge University Press. xx. 1990. 978-0-521-35037-2.
- 7.Klein, Axel. O'Kelly: An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France. Books on Demand. 223. 2014. 978-3-7357-2310-9.
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