Etude, Op.63 No.44
Amédée Méreaux
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Browse piano sheets by Amédée Méreaux on Zen Virtual Piano. Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, who lived from 1802 to 1874, was a French composer, pianist, piano teacher, musicologist and music critic. His best-known work is the 60 Grandes Études, Op. 63, grand studies for piano in sixty characteristic caprices, in the free and the strict style, dated 1855. His compositions are known for immense difficulty, and Marc-André Hamelin considered them more difficult than Alkan's. Immense difficulty, beside the stated obscurity today, may suggest a repertoire that few pianists take up. Étude No. 45, the Scherzo alla Napolitana, has only ever been played at roughly half tempo. Despite his current obscurity, some of the Op. 63 études were included in piano collections edited by Isidor Philipp, a street in Rouen carries his name, and in 2011 Cyprien Katsaris recorded five of them. An étude played only at roughly half tempo may suggest it tests the limits of playable speed. A Rouen street and a recording of five études may suggest that his name survives mostly in local and specialist memory. Operas were mostly what his grandfather wrote, and his father composed for the piano and organ, in the family of musicians Amédée Méreaux came from. His mother in particular, along with his father, wanted a career in advocacy for him, and so his early education was very careful, with piano learned from his father. A grandfather who wrote operas and a father who composed, beside parents who wanted advocacy, may suggest a tension between family tradition and family hopes. Anton Reicha gave him harmony lessons at ten, and he won first prize in a piano competition at the Lycée Charlemagne. When he was barely 14, his father let his first works be published. Music, not advocacy, was plainly what he wanted, and his parents, his mother above all, put that ambition first. He is known as a musicologist for Les Clavecinistes de 1637 à 1790, a study he wrote between 1864 and 1867, and his student Charlotte Tardieu later performed with him. A study written between 1864 and 1867 may suggest an interest in historical keyboard music. Harmony lessons at ten and printed works at 14 may suggest a steady early run of music training.
Browse piano sheets by Amédée Méreaux on Zen Virtual Piano.
Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, who lived from 1802 to 1874, was a French composer, pianist, piano teacher, musicologist and music critic. His best-known work is the 60 Grandes Études, Op. 63, grand studies for piano in sixty characteristic caprices, in the free and the strict style, dated 1855. His compositions are known for immense difficulty, and Marc-André Hamelin considered them more difficult than Alkan's. Immense difficulty, beside the stated obscurity today, may suggest a repertoire that few pianists take up.
Étude No. 45, the Scherzo alla Napolitana, has only ever been played at roughly half tempo. Despite his current obscurity, some of the Op. 63 études were included in piano collections edited by Isidor Philipp, a street in Rouen carries his name, and in 2011 Cyprien Katsaris recorded five of them. An étude played only at roughly half tempo may suggest it tests the limits of playable speed. A Rouen street and a recording of five études may suggest that his name survives mostly in local and specialist memory.
Operas were mostly what his grandfather wrote, and his father composed for the piano and organ, in the family of musicians Amédée Méreaux came from. His mother in particular, along with his father, wanted a career in advocacy for him, and so his early education was very careful, with piano learned from his father. A grandfather who wrote operas and a father who composed, beside parents who wanted advocacy, may suggest a tension between family tradition and family hopes.
Anton Reicha gave him harmony lessons at ten, and he won first prize in a piano competition at the Lycée Charlemagne. When he was barely 14, his father let his first works be published. Music, not advocacy, was plainly what he wanted, and his parents, his mother above all, put that ambition first. He is known as a musicologist for Les Clavecinistes de 1637 à 1790, a study he wrote between 1864 and 1867, and his student Charlotte Tardieu later performed with him. A study written between 1864 and 1867 may suggest an interest in historical keyboard music. Harmony lessons at ten and printed works at 14 may suggest a steady early run of music training.
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Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux was a French composer, pianist, piano teacher, musicologist and music critic who lived from 1802 to 1874.
His best-known work is the 60 Grandes Études, Op. 63.
Hamelin considered Méreaux's compositions more difficult than Alkan's.
It is a study Méreaux wrote between 1864 and 1867.