What French composer and pianist had the first British performance of their Organ Concerto in Chichester Cathedral in 1943?
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Anne Maddocks Anne Maddocks (23 October 1911 in Heyshott, West Sussex – October 2006) was an English musician. Maddocks' parents were enthusiastic amateur musicians and, by the age of 14, Anne was playing the organ for services at two village churches. In 1942 she was appointed Assistant Organist at Chichester Cathedral by Horace Hawkins (a pupil of Widor) who was the cathedral's Organist & Master of the Choristers. She was the first woman in Great Britain to hold such a post in the cathedral. She had perfect pitch and as Hawkins put it, she played Widor's music "with the master's interpretation". She gave the first British performance of Poulenc's Organ Concerto in Chichester Cathedral in 1943.
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Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (] ; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include "mélodies", solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1919), the ballet "Les biches" (1923), the "Concert champêtre" (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera "Dialogues des Carmélites" (1957), and the "Gloria" (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra.
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Aloÿs Claussmann Aloÿs Claussmann (5 July 1850 – 7 November 1926) was a French organist, pianist and composer.
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Samson François Samson Pascal François (18 May 192422 October 1970) was a French pianist and composer.
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John Taylor (jazz) John Taylor (25 September 1942 – 17 July 2015) was a British jazz pianist born in Manchester, England, who occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesiser.
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Joséphine Boulay Joséphine Pauline Boulay (22 May 1869 – 5 August 1925) was a French organist and composer. She was born in Paris and studied music at the Paris Conservatoire with César Franck and Jules Massenet. She was blind and became the first woman to win a first prize in organ at the Conservatoire in 1888. She also won first prize in Faure's competition. For thirty-seven years she taught piano and organ at the Institute for Blind Youths She died in Paris.
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Charles Hancock Charles Hancock FRCO (4 January 1852 – 6 February 1927) was an organist and composer based in England.
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Ferdinand Barlow Ferdinand Frédéric "Fred" Barlow (2 October 1881 – 3 January 1951) was an 20th-century French classical composer.
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Mélanie Bonis Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis (b. 4th arrondissement of Paris, 21 January 1858 – d. Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise), 18 March 1937) was a prolific French classical composer. She wrote more than 300 compositions, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. The organist Auguste Bazille was one of her teachers.
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Alain Lefèvre Alain Lefèvre, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born July 23, 1962) is a French Canadian pianist and composer. He is one of the Québécois pianists who have sold the greatest number of musical recordings.
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Théodore Lack Théodore Lack (3 September 1846 – 25 November 1921) was a French pianist and composer.
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Derek Healey Derek Edward Healey (born 2 May 1936) is an English composer, organist, and music educator whose more than 40 published works include orchestral and chamber pieces, an opera, and several organ and choral works.
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Hubert J. Foss Hubert James Foss (2 May 1899 – 27 May 1953) was an English pianist, composer, and first Musical Editor (1923–1941) for Oxford University Press (OUP) at Amen House in London. His work at the Press was a major factor in promoting music and musicians in England between the world wars, most notably Ralph Vaughan Williams, through publishing and encouraging performance of their works. In doing this work, he made the Music Department of OUP a major publisher of music in the early- and mid-twentieth century.
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Alexander Brailowsky Alexander Brailowsky (16 February 1896 – 25 April 1976) was a Russian-born French pianist who specialized in the works of Frédéric Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars.
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Eustache Du Caurroy Eustache du Caurroy (baptised February 4, 1549 – August 7, 1609) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including "musique mesurée", and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of Jean Titelouze.
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Roy Douglas Richard Roy Douglas (12 December 1907 – 23 March 2015), better known as Roy Douglas, was a British composer, pianist and arranger. He worked as musical assistant to Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Richard Addinsell, made well-known orchestrations of works such as "Les Sylphides" (based on piano pieces by Chopin) and Addinsell's "Warsaw Concerto", and wrote a quantity of original music.
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Michel Béroff Michel Béroff (born 9 May 1950) is a French pianist and conductor of Bulgarian origin.
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Guy Sacre Guy Sacre (born 1948) is a French composer, pianist and musical critic.
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Cello Concerto (Lalo) Édouard Lalo wrote his Cello Concerto in D minor in 1876, in collaboration with the Belgian cellist Adolphe Fischer. The work was premièred the following year at the Cirque d'Hiver with Fischer as soloist.
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Paul Arma Paul Arma (Hungarian: Arma Pál, aka "Amrusz Pál"; né Weisshaus Imre; 22 November 1905 in Budapest – 28 November 1987 in Paris) was a Hungarian-French pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist.
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Organ Sonatas, Op. 65 (Mendelssohn) Mendelssohn was a skilled organist, and during his visits to Britain gave a number of well-received organ recitals. These often included the improvisations for which he was famous (e.g., at his recitals during his 1842 tour in London and Oxford). In an article in the magazine "Musical World" of 1838, the English organist Henry John Gauntlett noted:
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Émile Poillot Émile André Poillot (] ) (10 March 1886 – 22 June 1948) was a French pianist, organist, and pedagogue.