Marie Jaëll - Piano Concerto Nº 1, 2

Marie Jaëll

 

(17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue.

 

Piano Concerto Nº 1 in D minor

I. Lento - Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Allegro con brio

Romain Descharmes (Piano) Orchestre National de Lille Joseph Swensen (Conductor)

 

 Piano Concerto Nº 2 in C minor

Romain Descharmes (Piano) Orcheste National de Lille Joseph Swensen (Conductor)

 

Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others,[1] She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart,[2] and was the first pianist to perform all the piano sonatas of Beethoven in Paris.[2] She did scientific studies of hand techniques in piano playing and attempted to replace traditional drilling with systematic piano methods.[3][4] Her students included Albert Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898-99.[5] She died in Paris.

 

On August 9, 1866, at twenty years of age, Marie married the Austrian concert pianist, Alfred Jaëll. She was then known variously as Marie Trautmann, Marie Jaëll, Marie Jaëll Trautmann or Marie Trautmann Jaëll. Alfred was fifteen years older than Marie and had been a student of Chopin. The husband and wife team performed popular pieces, duos, solos, and compositions of their own throughout Europe and Russia. As a pianist, Marie specialized in the music of Schumann, Liszt, and Beethoven. They transcribed Beethoven's "Marcia alla Turca Athens Ruins" for piano; the score was successfully published in 1872.

Alfred was able to use his success and fame to help Marie meet with various composers and performers throughout their travels. In 1868, Marie met the composer and pianist Franz Liszt. A record of Liszt's comments about Marie survives in an article published in the American Record Guide: "[Marie Jaëll] has the brains of a philosopher and the fingers of an artist." Liszt introduced Marie to other great composers and performers of the day—for example, Johannes Brahms and Anton Rubinstein. By 1871, Marie's compositions began to be published.

With the death of her husband in 1881, Marie had the opportunity to study with Liszt in Weimar, and with Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck in Paris. She also had composition lessons with César Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns, who dedicated his Piano Concerto No. 1 and the "Étude en forme de valse" to her.[2][8] Saint-Saëns thought highly enough of Marie to introduce her to the Society of Music Composers—a great honor for women in those days.

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