Amédée Méreaux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Amédée Méreaux

French musicologist, pianist, and composer

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1802

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 25-Apr-1874

Profession: composer, pianist, organist, musicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Amédée Méreaux

  • Amédée Méreaux (full name Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux) (Paris, 17 September 1802 – Rouen, 25 April 1874) was a French musicologist, pianist, and composer.
  • He was the author of Les clavecinistes de 1637 à 1790, written from 1864 to 1867, which had essays on the composers it mentioned.
  • His grandfather, Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux (1745–1797), was a composer of operas and oratorios, while his father, Jean-Nicolas Lefroid de Méreaux, was an organist and pianist and was a composer of piano sonatas.
  • He was a friend of Frédéric Chopin. His music, while obscure, is somewhat known for its sometimes immense difficulties ( Marc-André Hamelin thinks that his piano works are sometimes more difficult than even those of Charles-Valentin Alkan), and his most famous work is his 60 Études, Op.
  • 63.
  • For example, his "Bravura" étude, Op.
  • 63 No.
  • 24, has passages where the pianist's two hands cross over each other simultaneously every quaver, at the speed of = 100.
  • However, not all of his works have such difficulties.
  • Although his works are considered by some, including Hamelin, to be unmusical, this view is not held by all.
  • Despite his current obscurity, some of his Op.
  • 63 études were included in some piano collections edited by Isidor Philipp, and there is a street in Rouen named after him.
  • Recently, five of his Op.
  • 63 études have been recorded by Cyprien Katsaris.

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