Isidor Philipp
Isidor (also Isidore ) Edmond Philipp ( born September 2, 1863 in Budapest, † February 20, 1958 in Paris) was a Hungarian pianist and music teacher.
Life and work
Isidore Philipp came as a child to Paris. There he studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire with Georges Mathias, a pupil of Chopin and won in 1883 the final price. At the Conservatory, he met Claude Debussy, with whom he remained close friends until his death. He also studied with Camille Saint- Saëns, Stephen Heller and Liszt pupil Théodore Ritter. In 1890 he made his debut as piano soloist in London.
He founded with Berthelier Henri (1856-1918) on violin and cellist Jules -Léopold Loeb (1852-1933), a chamber music trio with which he toured around ten years through Europe. 1893 Isidore Philipp returned to the Paris Conservatoire to teach himself, where he, as he had acquired French citizenship in 1903, was a full professor and taught until 1934. In addition, he also taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. His pupils included Aaron Copland, Guiomar Novaes, Wilfrid Pelletier, Albert Schweitzer, Alexander Tcherepnin, Henriette Puig- Roget, Soulima Stravinsky and Beveridge Webster. 1940 Philip emigrated to the United States, where he first settled, with the support of his former pupil Dwight Anderson in Louisville. Later he taught in New York and Montreal. 1955 Philip was in Paris zweiundneunzigjährig his farewell concert.
1977 Philipp Archive was founded, in addition to compositions of Philip, press reports and photos autographs, of over two hundred letters from Philip to his students as well as of letters known composers such as Ferruccio Busoni, Franz Liszt under the umbrella of the American Liszt Society at the University of Louisville Jules Massenet and Camille Saint- Saëns contains. From his piano pedagogical works particularly a five-volume school of piano technique is mentioned.
Compositions
- Reverie mélancolique
- Sérénade humoristique
- Concertino pour 3 pianos
- Suite pour 2 pianos
Publications
Philipp a publié un certain nombre d' études techniques pour le piano, parmi lesquelles:
- École du mécanisme (Lyon, Janin et Fils, 1900)
- Exercices de tenue (Paris, Heugel, 1904)
- Gradus ad Parnassum (10 fascicules, Paris, Leduc, 1911-1914 )
- Petit Gradus ad Parnassum ( Leduc, 1913-1914 )
- Technique du journalière pianiste ( Heugel, 1929)
- Exercices pour l' enseignement du modern piano (Paris, Salabert, 1933)
- Nouveaux exercices préparatoires pour l' enseignement supérieur du piano (Paris, Eschig, 1937)
- Exercices sur les touches noires ( Eschig, 1942)