- Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of "Les Six" - also known as the "Groupe des Six" - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz and for their use of polytonality (music in more than one key at once). - Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (b. 7 September 1961) is a French pianist born in Lyon, France to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin and his mother, a somewhat accomplished pianist herself, introduced the instrument to Jean-Yves in 1966. Thibaudet thus began seriously studying the piano with several prominent teachers and made his first public appearance at the age of seven. - Paul Taffanel
Paul Taffanel is regarded as the founder of the French Flute School that dominated much of flute composition and performance during the mid-20th century. Born on September 16, 1844, in Bordeaux, France, Taffanel's first flute lessons (at age nine) were from his father. He gave his first concert around the age of ten. He then went on to study at the Paris Conservatory under Louis Dorus, where he graduated from in 1860. - Pierre Fournier
Pierre Fournier (June 24, 1906 - January 8, 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general. His mother taught him to play the piano, but he had a mild case of polio as a child and lost dexterity in his feet and legs. Having difficulties with the piano pedals, he turned to the cello. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory at 17, … - İdil Biret
İdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her outstanding interpretations of the Romantic repertoire. Biret began her lessons at the age of five with Mithat Fenmen, who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament passed a special law which enabled her to study abroad, studying at the Paris Conservatory in France under the tutelage of Nadia Boulanger. - François-Joseph Fétis
François-Joseph Fétis, Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the "Biographie universelle des musiciens" remains an important source of information today. He was born in Mons, Hainaut, and was trained as a musician by his father, who followed the same calling. His talent for composition manifested itself at the age of seven, … - Hélène Grimaud
Hélène Grimaud is a French pianist. She was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is of Corsican, German, North African and Jewish heritage. Her family changed its name from Grimaldi before she was born. She has described herself as an "extremely agitated" child, having a problem over-focusing; she was a give-her-all-or-none type of child. She discovered the piano at seven. She entered the Paris Conservatory in 1982 where she studied with Jacques Rouvier. - Lily Pons
Lily Pons was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born Alice Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15. During World War I, she played piano and sang for soldiers in Paris hospitals. She also sang at receptions in Cannes. In 1925, encouraged by soprano Dyna Beumer, she started taking singing lessons from Alberti de Gorostiaga in Paris. - André Gedalge
André Gedalge, was an inflential French composer and teacher. Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in "livres de prix" for public schools. During this time he published books by Marie Laubot and Edmond About for the Librairie Gedalge. It wasn't until 1886, at the age of 28, that he entered the Paris Conservatory. In that same year he won the Second Prix de Rome. - Jacques Rouvier
Jacques Rouvier (born on January 18, 1947 in Marseille) is a French pianist. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jean Hubeau, Vlado Perlemuter, and Pierre Sancan. He took two Premiers Prix (first prizes): in piano performance (1965) and in chamber music (1967). Rouvier was remarkably successful at piano competitions in his youth. He took first prize at both the Viotti International Music Competition in Vercelli and the Barcelona Competition in 1967. - Henri Rabaud
Henri Rabaud was a French conductor and composer. Rabaud was born in Paris, France, the son of cellist and a singer, Hippolyte Rabaud (1839-1900), who was a professor of cello at the Paris Conservatory. Henri studied with André Gédalge and Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1908, he became the conductor at the Paris Opéra at the Opéra-Comique and from 1914 to 1918 he directed the Opéra. - Ginette Neveu
Ginette Neveu (August 11, 1919 - October 27, 1949) was a French violinist. Born in Paris into a very musical family, Ginette Neveu became a violinist and her brother Jean-Paul Neveu a classical pianist. She was also the grandniece of composer Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937). A child prodigy, Ginette Neveu took lessons from her mother and made her solo debut at the age of seven with the Colonne Orchestra in Paris. - Arthur Pougin
Arthur Pougin was a French musical and dramatic critic and writer. He was born at Châteauroux (Indre) and studied music at the Paris Conservatory under Alard (violin) and Reber (harmony). In 1855 he became conductor at the Théatre Beaumarchais. and afterward leader at Musard's concerts, subconductor at the Folies-Nouvelles, and from 1860 to 1863 he was first violin at the Opéra-Comique. He was in turn "feuilletoniste" to "Le Soir, La Tribune, … - Alison Balsom
Alison Balsom is an English trumpet soloist. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama the Paris Conservatory, and also with Håkan Hardenberger. She is a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and she released her debut album with EMI Classics in 2002. In 2005, she released her second disc, "Bach Works for Trumpet" as part of a new exclusive contract with EMI Classics. - Alexandre Lagoya
Alexandre Lagoya (born June 21 1929 in Alexandria, Egypt; died August 24 1999) was a classical guitarist. Lagoya was born to a Greek father and an Italian mother. By 1955, when he married the French guitarist Ida Presti, his career had already begun. Lagoya played a variety of works for guitar, performing concerts and recording albums, often collaborating with Presti and also with other musicians. Lagoya was also a successful teacher. - Jose Iturbi
José Iturbi (born 28 November 1895 in Valencia, Spain; died 28 June 1980 in Los Angeles) was a Spanish conductor and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, "Thousands Cheer". He was involved in a complex family custody battle in the 1940s that culminated in his former son-in-law kidnapping Iturbi's two granddaughters. - Alfred Bruneau
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. As a youth, Bruneau studied the cello at the Paris Conservatory, and played in the Pasdeloup orchestra. He soon began to compose, writing a cantata, "Genevieve de Paris" while still a young man. In 1884 his "Ouverture heroique" was performed, followed by the choral symphonies, … - Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 14, 1929. After earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York, he went to Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique and the Paris Conservatory. In 1956, Nelson joined the faculty of Brown University in Providence, … - Alphonse Hasselmans
Alphonse Hasselmans (1845-1912) was a Belgian-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue. He composed several dozen original solos for harp (the most famous is a concert etude entitled "La Source" ("The Spring"), op. 44), transcribed for harp numerous works originally for other instruments by other composers, and edited important collections of etudes by the earlier 19th-century harpist Robert N. C. Bochsa. - Christian Ivaldi
Christian Ivaldi is a French pianist born on September 2nd, 1938 in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Février and took a Premier Prix in piano performance, as well as in chamber music, counterpoint, and accompaniment. He first appeared as a soloist at Radio France in 1961. He has premiered pieces by Gilbert Amy, Georges Aperghis, André Boucourechliev, Maurice Ohana, and Luis de Pablo among others. - Marion Bauer
Marion Bauer (b. Walla Walla, Washington, August 15 1882; d. South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 9 1955) was an American composer. The daughter of French Jewish immigrants, she studied piano with her sister Emilie in their hometown, and later with Henry Holden Huss and Eugene Heffley in New York. She studied harmony and analysis with Nadia Boulanger, in exchange for English lessons, and piano with Raoul Pugno, both in Paris. - Antoine Tamestit
Antoine Tamestit is a French violist. Tamestit, who studied at the Paris Conservatory, has performed at such venues as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Vienna Musikverein, and Carnegie Hall. He won first prize at the 2000 Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition, 2001 William Primrose International Viola Competition, and 2004 Munich International Music Competition. - Antoine François Marmontel
Antoine François Marmontel was a French pianist, teacher and musicographer. Marmontel entered the Paris Conservatory in 1827. His teachers were Pierre Zimmerman in pianoforte, Victor Dourlen in harmony, Jacques Fromental Halévy in fugue and Jean-François Lesueur in composition. He achieved first prizes in theory of music and piano. In 1837, he became an assistant in theory of music at the Conservatory. - François Devienne
François Devienne was a French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory. François Devienne was born in Joinville (Haute-Marne), as the youngest of fourteen children of a saddlemaker. After receiving his first musical training as a choirboy in his hometown, he was playing in various Parisian ensembles as soloist and orchestra player. He studied the flute with Félix Rault and in 1780 he joined the household of Cardinal de Rohan. - Romain Bussine
Romain Bussine was a French poet and voice professor at the Paris Conservatory who lived during the 19th century. In 1871, together with Camille Saint-Saëns and Henri Duparc, he founded the Société Nationale de Musique as a forum for promoting contemporary French chamber and orchestral music. Later an argument over the performance of foreign works led to Saint-Saëns and Bussine resigning the joint presidency of the Société Nationale in 1886. - Maurice Le Boucher
Maurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher, was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Paris Conservatory, where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré. In 1907, Le Boucher won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome. Later, he became professor at the École Niedermeyer and organist at St. Germain-l'Auxerrois in Paris. He wrote an Organ Symphony in E major, which was published in 1917 by Leduc, Paris. - Ulvi Cemal Erkin
Ulvi Cemal Erkin was a Turkish composer. Erkin graduated from Galatasaray High School. He passed the examination and was sent to Paris, France for his education with Cezmi Rifki Erinc and Ekrem Zeki Un by the state in 1925. He studied in the Paris Conservatory and the Ecole Normale de Musique. Upon his return to Turkey in 1930, he began teaching at the Musiki Muallim Mektebi (Music Teachers School). - Henri Marteau
Henri Marteau was a French violinist and composer. He was born in Reims, France. His father was a well known amateur violinist of that city, and took a great interest in musical affairs. His mother was an excellent pianist, who had studied under Clara Schumann. Through the influence of Sivori, Marteau's parents were easily persuaded to allow their son to adopt a musical career, and he showed remarkable aptitude in his studies, first under Bunzl, … - Jean Rivier
Jean Rivier (born 21 July 1896, died November 61987) was a French composer of classical music. He composed over two hundred works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, and solo instruments. He served as Professor of Composition at the Paris Conservatory from 1948 until his retirement in 1966. During the period 1948-1962 he shared this position with famous composer Darius Milhaud. - Alain Meunier
Alain Meunier (b. Paris, 1942) is a French cellist. Meunier was born the third child among four siblings. Starting the cello at the age of 13 and received premier prix in chamber music at 15 and in cello at 16. He suddenly quit musical activities at the age of 18 and studied musical aesthetics and musicology. However, he began cello again as 22 and played in front of Pablo Casals aiming at Prades Festival. He entered Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena in Italy, … - Xian Xinghai
Xian Xinghai into a family of a poor sailor, Xian started learning clarinet in 1918 at the YMCA charity school attached to the Lingnan University in Canton. In 1926, he joined the National Music Institute at Peking University to study music. In 1928, he entered Shanghai National Music Conservatory to study violin and piano, and in the same year, he published his well-known essay, "The Universal Music". In 1929, Xian went to Paris and, in 1931, … - Georges Mager
Georges C. Mager (1885-1950) was a French musician, and principal trumpet with the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1919 until his death in 1950. He was originally brought to the Boston Symphony by conductor Pierre Monteux as a violist, reportedly sharing a stand with Arthur Fiedler, and was moved to principal trumpet a year later. Trained in France, he was a student of Merri Franquin at the Paris Conservatory. - Jean-François Paillard
Jean-François Paillard is a French conductor. He was born in Vitry-le-François and received his musical training at the Paris Conservatory and the Salzburg Mozarteum. In 1953, he founded the Jean-Marie Leclair Instrumental Ensemble, which later became the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra in 1959. The ensemble has made recordings of much of the Baroque repertoire for Erato Records and has toured throughout Europe and the United States. - Suna Kan
Suna Kan, born 1936 in Adana, Turkey is a Turkish violinist of classical music. She started playing the violin at the age of five and gave her first public concerts when she was only nine years old, performing Mozart's A major and Viotti's A minor violin concertos. She continued her studies in Ankara under Walter Gerhard, Izzet Albayrak and Lico Amar. In 1949 she was sent to France on scholarship, under a special law passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly. - Camille Erlanger
Camille Erlanger was a Parisian-born French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes and in 1888 won the Prix de Rome for his opera "Velléda". Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. - Gérard Hekking
Gérard Hekking was a French cellist. Born in Nancy, he served as first cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra from 1903 until 1914. From 1927 until his death he taught cello at the Paris Conservatory; he died in Paris. Hekking was the cousin of cellists André and Anton Hekking. - Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García
Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García, commonly referred to as Manuel García II. was a Spanish singer and music educator. He was the son of singer, teacher Manuel del Popolo Vicente García (Manuel Garcia I). After abandoning a career on stage (he was a baritone tenor), Garcia began to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830–48) and the Royal Academy of Music, London (1848–95). - Maurice Leroux
Maurice Leroux, a French composer and orchestrator, born 6 February 1923 and died 19 October 1992 in Avignon, France. He studied composition at the Paris Conservatory and was a student of Olivier Messiaen. His work includes 19 original film scores and a number of television scores and orchestrations.<sup>1<;/sup> - Victor Maurel
Victor Maurel (June 17, 1848 in Marseilles-October 22, 1923 in New York City) was a French baritone. Educated in music at the Paris Conservatory, he made his debut in opera in Paris in 1868, and in London in 1873. Maurel had a reputation for his acting skills and vocal method. He created Iago in "Otello" (1887) and the title role in "Falstaff" (1893) by Giuseppe Verdi, and was the first Tonio in Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" (1892), … - Merri Franquin
Merri Jean Baptiste Franquin (October 19, 1848 - 1934) was a French trumpeter, cornetist, and flugelhornist who was professor of trumpet at the Paris Conservatory from 1894 until 1925. Franquin was a teacher of both Georges Mager (1885-1950) who was principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1919 until 1950, and Eugene Foveau (1886-1957) who became professor of cornet at the Paris Conservatory in 1925.
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