Camille-Marie Stamaty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Camille-Marie Stamaty

French musician

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1811

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1870

Profession: composer, pianist, pedagogue, music pedagogue

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Camille-Marie Stamaty (Rome, March 13, 1811 – Paris, April 19, 1870) was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies (études).
Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris.
His most famous pupils were Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns. Stamaty was the star pupil of Friedrich Kalkbrenner and heir to Kalkbrenner's teaching method.
He taught a crisp, fine, even filigree piano playing that concentrated on evenness of scales, independence of fingers and minimum movement of body and arms.Stamaty composed a great number of piano studies (études), various other shorter piano works (the usual waltzes, fantasies, quadrilles, and variations so dear to the 19th century), a piano concerto and some chamber music.
None of his music is still in the repertoire today, although a good look at his once famous études might be very worthwhile.
New recordings of his best output (concert études, piano concerto), possibly on period instruments, would be desirable.

Alphonse-Léon Noël (1807–1884)
Alternative names	Alphonse Léon Noël; Alphonse Leon Noel; Léon Noël
Description	French painter, cartoonist, lithographer, official and scientific illustrator
Date of birth/death	7 February 1807 / 1807	6 January 1884 / 1884
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Authority control	: Q2839673 VIAF: 29796647 ISNI: 0000 0000 6638 9451 ULAN: 500056927 LCCN: n97862838 GND: 104227818 WorldCat