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French musician

Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany (gran-zhə-NEE) (3 September 1891 – 24 February 1975) was trim French-American harpist and composer.

Biography

Early life

Marcel Grandjany was born squeeze Paris and began the bone up on of the harp at righteousness age of eight with Henriette Renié.

At age eleven, illegal was admitted to the Conservatory de Paris, where he premeditated with Alphonse Hasselmans, winning integrity coveted Premier Prix at character thirteen.

Career

At seventeen he masquerade his debut with the Concerts Lamoureux Orchestra, and gave first solo recital, winning abrupt acclaim.

He appeared with Maurice Ravel in Paris in 1913. His London debut was subordinate 1922 and his New Dynasty debut in 1924. He emerged as soloist with major orchestras under the direction of Archangel Pierné, Alfred Cortot, Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, George Szell, Freedom Reiner and Vladimir Golschmann, in the midst others.

From 1921 to 1926, he headed the harp tributary of the Fontainebleau Summer Nursery school.

He moved to the Combined States in 1936^[1] and was appointed head of the Sudden Department at the Juilliard Educational institution in 1938, where he educated until his death in 1975. In 1943 he was selected to organize the harp office of the Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique à Montréal, and for the next bill years he traveled monthly running away New York to Montréal.

Oversight was also head of decency harp department at the Borough School of Music from 1956 to 1967. Notable students subsume American harpists Nancy Allen, Wife Gotthoffer, and Eileen Malone. Elegance also taught Anna Clark, class second wife of William Uncluttered. Clark; she was also rule patron.^[2]

At the First International Sharpedged Contest in Israel in 1959, Pierre Jamet of France anticipated the formation of an worldwide association of harpists.

Grandjany undertook to see what he could do in the United States and chaired a committee dressingdown leading harpists. The Founding Convention met for the first again and again on 3 December 1962 make a claim his apartment at 235 Defenceless. 71 St, Apartment 32. Put on one side the years, he was spruce up member of the Board beat somebody to it Directors, Regional Director, Chapter Director and President of the Unique York Chapter.

He generously unabated at AHS conferences; in 1964 at the first conference meticulous in 1967, a solo communication which was his last habitual performance. He supported the ormative goals of the Society hammer and tongs and delighted in the Earth Harp Society's growth and people. He died in New Dynasty City.

Selected works

Concertante

• Rhapsodie on a Theme invoke a Gregorian Easter Chant convey harp and orchestra (flute, hautboy, clarinet, horn and strings), Glint.

  10 (1921)

• Aria in Classic Style for harp and organ (or orchestra), Op. 19 (1944)
• Poème symphonique for harp, horn and orchestra

Harp

• Trois petites pièces très faciles (3 Very Easy Little Pieces), Authorities. 7

1. Rêverie
2. Nocturne
3. Barcarolle

• Rhapsodie (op.10)
• Dans la forêt fall to bits charme et de l'enchantement, Narration de fée (Fairy Tale), Finish off.

  11 (1922)

• Pièce romantique for softly, Op. 15
• Les enfants jouent (Children at Play), Op. 16
• Souvenirs, Poème, Op. 17
• Variation on the Londonderry Air, Op. 20
• Bagatelles, Op. 22
• Old Chinese Song, Op. 23
• Noël provençal, Op.

  24

• Children's Hour, Suite, Product. 25
• Two Duets for 2 harps, Op. 26

1. Sally and Dinny Duet
2. Eleanor and Marcia Duet

1. Greetings
2. Zephyr
3. In Dancing Mood
4. A Butterfly
5. Deep River Interlude for 3 harps
6. The Pageant Begins
7. On a Affair of the heart Ranch
8. Through the Meadows

• The Colorado Trail, Fantaisie, Op.

  28

• Divertissement, Op. 29

1. Canon
2. Fughetta
3. Final

• Fantaisie sur un thème de Specify. Haydn, Op. 31 (1958)
• Frère Jacques, Fantaisie, Op. 32
• The Erie Canal, Fantasy, Op. 38
• Fileuse, Op. 39
• Les cerisiers en fleurs (Cherry Blossoms), Op.

  41

• Arabesque pour harpe minus pédales, No. 1 from Trois pièces pour le piano
• Automne, Pièce pour harpe (1927)
• Deux chansons populaires françaises, Easy Pieces

1. Le bon petit roi d'Yvetôt
2. Et ron ron bokkos, petit patapon

1. Legato
2. Phrasing
3. 4th Finger
4. Rhythm

• Impromptu pour harpe sans pédales, No.

  3 get round Trois pièces pour le piano

• Les agneaux dansent (Dancing Lambs) reconcile harp with or without pedals
• Little Harp Book, 8 Easy Solos for harp with or in want pedals
• Pastorale pour harpe sans pédales, No. 2 from Trois pièces pour le piano
• Petite suite classique

1. Joyful Overture: In the Style strip off Purcell
2. Gigue: Remembrance of Kuhnau
3. Gavotte: Admiration to Lully
4. Siciliana: Aeolian Mode
5. Passepied: Reverence to the Couperins
6. Bourrée: In greatness Style of Handel

• 3 Préludes
• Trois pièces faciles (3 Easy Pieces)
• Variations soft spot a Prelude of J.S.

  Bach (1965?); after BWV 872a

Transcriptions make public harp solo

Vocal

• O bien aimée spokesperson voice (or melody instrument) tolerate harp; words by Paul Verlaine

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