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Georges Bachmann : Gigue Bretonne (c1887)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

The French composer Georges Bachmann (1847(or 8) -94) was the son of a piano manufacturer (in Tours, I believe). He studied piano locally, and later with Louis Lacombe (in Paris?), was recognised as a prodigy, and embarked on a tour of Germany and Russia. He was encouraged by such musicians as Vieuxtemps and Henri Wieniawski, and became a friend of Henselt in St. Petersburg. While still in his teens he became a professor of a musical institute there, and court pianist to Grand Duchess Marie. However, he found Russia too cold, and returned to France in 1867. Before then, he had written a piano concerto and a symphony, but once back in France he seems to have focused on salon music. Evocations of rustic dances were very popular in the French drawing room, and Bachmann was a master of the genre. This top-drawer piece deserves to be heard in the concert hall, but meanwhile my recording will have to do. I dedicate this video to the memory of the great Italian-French pianist Aldo Ciccolini, whose death on 1 February 2015 at age 89 was announced the day before I made this recording. Alas I never met him or saw him play live, but when I was a student, his peerless 1970 recording of Saint-Saëns' 5th Piano Concerto was a constant companion and inspiration, and I am sure he would have done an amazing job with this piece!
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Georges Bachmann : Gigue Bretonne (c1887)

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