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Price: $285.00 |
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MINT CONDITION |
BLANCHE SELVA - PIANIST |
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Long autographed letter signed in her tiny spidery had to composer Albert Roussel 2 August, 1906. ...I spent 2 days at Maestro’s (Vincent D’Indy). He’s working on an ‘expressive’ orchestral piece entitled Souvenir and which seems to be done in memory of his wife. I worked a lot on Schumann with him and he gave me heaps of very precious instructions as he himself worked with Clara Schumann. Tomorrow I am going to set myself to composition, but it will be so bad….but since Maestro likes it, I obey him…. She further invites Roussel to send his pieces to her in Molas, or later to Venice. Selva (1884-1942) is an extremely rare pianist autograph. One of the most important in Paris of her generation, she studied first with Sophie Chen and then at the Conservatoire with Alphonse Duvernoy. She left the Conservatiore early with a medal, but without a diploma. Further study with Vincent D’Indy led to a professorship at his Schola Cantorum as of 1901, a position she held until 1922. (She was known as D’Indy’s “Musical Spirit”) She also taught at the Conservatoire in Strasbourg, the École Normale de Musique in Paris and the Prague Conservatory. She moved to Barcelona in 1924 and founded her own music school. She also accompanied violinist Juan Massia. An important recitalist, through her Schola Cantorum connections she became very popular with the composers associated with the school, D’Indy, Roussel and Isaac Albeniz. She premiered works by all three, Albeniz “Iberia”, D’Indy’s Sonata op. 63 which was dedicated to her and Roussel’s Suite for piano op. 14. which was also dedicated to her. While she would program the works of Ravel, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok and other modern masters in concert, many she knew well; she also was heralded for her interpretation of Bach, Scarlatti and the German Romantics. Her recordings include Bach, Franck Severac solos and Beethoven with Massia. She suffered a debilitating stroke shortly after making her first records. She left Spain due to the civil war there and wound up back in France where she died at the age of 49 from complications due to her earlier stroke. |
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