Robert Casadesus

別名：羅伯特.卡薩德修

國(guó)籍：法國(guó)

生日：1899 年 4 月 7 日

職業(yè)：鋼琴家，作曲家

逝世日期：1972 年 9 月 19 日

1899年出生于法國(guó)巴黎，1972年在巴黎逝世。卡薩德修十歲開始跟隨姑姑羅絲.卡薩德修(Rose Casadesus)學(xué)習(xí)鋼琴，后來在巴黎音樂院跟隨李斯特的學(xué)生杰梅學(xué)習(xí)，十四歲得到鋼琴第一獎(jiǎng)，1917年首次登臺(tái)演出，1921年與鋼琴家嘉比里拉(嘉比)結(jié)婚。由于和拉威爾的私人交情，卡薩德修第一場(chǎng)獨(dú)奏會(huì)和曲目全部演奏拉威爾的作品，1927年與妻子開始合作一系列曲目以雙鋼琴或四手聯(lián)彈為主的二重奏獨(dú)奏會(huì)?？ㄋ_德修于1935年在托斯卡尼尼Arturo Toscanini)的指揮下首度在美國(guó)登臺(tái)演出，1940年移居美國(guó)并第一次在卡內(nèi)基音樂廳露面?？ㄋ_德修在1946年回到歐洲并且擔(dān)任法國(guó)封騰布洛美洲音樂院校長(zhǎng)?？ㄋ_德修為數(shù)不少的唱片中包括拉威爾作品全集，他的音樂以優(yōu)異的控制技巧及豐富的音色聞名，除此之外，他也是一位著名的教師與作曲家。

從藝歷程：Robert Casadesus was born and died in Paris, and studied there at the Conservatoire with Louis Diémer, taking a Premier Prix (First Prize) in 1913 and the Prix Diémer in 1920. Robert then entered the class of Lucien Capet, who had exceptional influence. Capet had founded a famous quartet that bore his name (Capet Quartet) and in which two of Robert's uncles played: Henri and Marcel. The Quartet often rehearsed in the Casadesus home, and so it was that Robert was initiated into chamber music. The Beethoven Quartets held no secret for him—he knew them backwards and forwards without ever having played them.

Beginning in 1922, Casadesus collaborated with the composer Maurice Ravel on a project to create piano rolls of a number of his works. Casadesus and Ravel also shared the concert platform in France, Spain and England. Casadesus toured widely as a piano soloist and often performed with his wife, the pianist Gaby (L'H?te) Casadesus, whom he married in 1921.

From 1935 Casadesus taught at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau. He and his family spent the Second World War years in the United States and had a home in Princeton, New Jersey. (Among his Princeton neighbors was Albert Einstein, an amateur violinist; the two played Mozart together privately on occasion.[2] )

After the Battle of France Fall of France in 1940, Robert and Gaby established the Fontainebleau School at Newport, Rhode Island. In 1942 the Fontainebleau School was moved to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires. In 1943, he performed as part of a series of New York concerts meant to raise money for the Coordinating Council of the French Relief Societies.[3]

After the war, in 1946, Robert Casadesus, now Director of the American Conservatory oversaw its return to Fontainebleau. His pupils included Claude Helffer, Grant Johannesen, Monique Haas, Mary Louise Boehm, Carol Lems-Dworkin, and William Eves, who appeared in the Casadesus based Bell Telephone Hour fine arts documentary TV series "The First Family of the Piano" (1967) and was a longtime piano instructor at Bowdoin College. He continued recording and composing; his last composition, the Symphony no. 7, "Israel," was a tribute to the people of Israel and was dedicated to his frequent collaborator George Szell ; Szell died in the year the work was completed, 1970, and it was not premiered until shortly after Casadesus's 1972 death, by an ensemble led by conductor Frederic Waldmann at Alice Tully Hall in New York City,.[4]

Robert and Gaby Casadesus had three children, Jean, Guy and Therese. Casadesus died in Paris, 19 September 1972, after a brief illness and only a few months after the death of his son Jean in an automobile accident. Gaby Casadesus died in Paris on 12 November 1999. In her later years she edited the works of Ravel for G. Schirmer, Inc.