Monique Haas

Monique Haas ( born October 20, 1909 in Paris, † June 9, 1987 ibid ) was a French pianist.

Life

As a granddaughter of a Palatine Monique Haas studied at the Conservatoire de Paris under Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy. In chamber music, she taught Charles Tournemire, in harmony Suzanne Demarquez and in music history Maurice Emmanuel. Private lessons she took with Rudolf Serkin, Robert Casadesus and George Enescu.

After she had won in 1927 the 1st prize of the Conservatory, she performed as a soloist and Duospielerin, including Pierre Fournier, Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith and Enescu, a friend and her husband's mentor. Her repertoire ranged from Bach, Haydn and Mozart to Bartok, Prokofiev and Messiaen. With the exception of Robert Schumann and Chopin's Etudes they avoided the so-called romantic. On most of their programs were François Couperin, Jean -Philippe Rameau, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, whose piano works she recorded completely.

Her international career began in the postwar period. Became famous with her ​​recordings of 20th century music. She led the (unknown ) Suite for Piano and Strings ( Hindemith ) (1940 ), and - on Béla Bartoka Piano Concerto No. 3 - a few days after György Sándor for the first time. The Études ( Debussy ) brought a Grand Prix du Disque. Most of the shots she made with Deutsche Grammophon, including the Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra ( Stravinsky ) ( 1950) and the Piano Concerto in G major ( Ravel ) ( 1948). In its second recording in 1965, she played the legendary Piano Concerto for the Left Hand ( Ravel ) a. The late 1960s and early 1970s created significant recordings of works by Stravinsky, Hindemith, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Milhaud, Messiaen, Pierre Boulez and her husband Marcel Mihalovici. Milhaud, Florent Schmitt and especially her husband devoted their many works.

In 1967 she began to teach himself, at his native Paris Conservatory and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg; their concerts and recordings but they did not give up. Except for Deutsche Grammophon, the Bertelsmann Music Group, Elektra Records and profile were (label) contractor. In 2006 the German Grammophon all their recordings on eight CDs out again.

Monique Haas died two years after her husband at the age of 77 years.