Georges Mathias
Template:Short description Template:Infobox classical composer Georges Amédée Saint-Clair Mathias (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 14 October 1826Template:Spaced ndash14 October 1910) was a French composer, pianist and teacher. Alongside his teaching work, Georges Mathias was a very active concert pianist.
Biography
Mathias was born in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with François Bazin, Auguste Barbereau, Augustin Savard and Fromental Halévy. Privately, he studied composition with Friedrich Kalkbrenner and piano with Frédéric Chopin.[1][2]
After finishing his studies, he taught piano at the Conservatoire from 1862 to 1893.[3] Among his notable students were Teresa Carreño, Camille Chevillard, Paul Dukas, Camille Erlanger, James Huneker, Henri O'Kelly, Isidor Philipp, Raoul Pugno, Alfonso Rendano, Erik Satie, Eugénie Satie-Barnetche, Ernest Schelling, Ernesto Elorduy, José Tragó and Alberto Williams.
Mathias and Karol Mikuli, another student of Chopin, significantly influenced the way their teacher's style was communicated to later generations of musicians.[3] Besides teaching, Mathias was also active as a concert pianist. On 14 March 1864, he was the principal pianist at the premiere of Gioachino Rossini's Petite messe solennelle.[4]
He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1872.[5] He died in Paris in 1910, on his 84th birthday.
Works
His compositions include overtures to Hamlet and Mazeppa, five morceaux symphoniques for piano and strings, two piano concertos, six piano trios, a symphony, Oeuvres choisies pour le piano, Études de genre, Études de style et de mécanisme, a collection of two and four-hand piano pieces, and transcriptions including the one of some scenes from Mozart's The Magic Flute.[2]
References
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External links
- Free scores by Georges Mathias at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Information about Mathias in other sources
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- 1826 births
- 1910 deaths
- French Romantic composers
- French male composers
- 19th-century French male classical pianists
- 19th-century French classical pianists
- Conservatoire de Paris alumni
- French piano educators
- Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Musicians from Paris
- Pupils of Fromental Halévy
- Pupils of Frédéric Chopin
- Burials at Montmartre Cemetery