Paule Carrère-Dencausse
Paule Carrère-Dencausse[1] (22 December 1891 – 21 October 1967) was a French pianist, concertist and teacher.[A 1]
Biography[edit]
Dencausse studied music at the conservatoire de Bordeaux: First Prize for solfège, piano in 1906, chamber music in 1908, harmony in 1910 as well as counterpoint and fugue in 1912.[2] She won the Musica International Piano Competition in 1912.[A 1]
She later studied musical composition with Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin who will dedicate his scherzo in C minor to her[2] and won a silver medal in the music composition competition (Romance sans paroles).[A 1]
First accompanying a singing class at the Bordeaux Conservatory, she was appointed professor of solfeggio in 1920 and professor of piano in 1931, a position she held until 1963. She was also a professor at the Marguerite Long Academy whose regional center she created in Bordeaux.[A 1]
She married violinist Georges Carrère in 1925 and therefore performed under the name of Paule Carrère-Dencausse. She was then, with Eugène Feillou (violist) and Henri Barouk (cellist), also a member of the Georges Carrère Quartet.[3]
Great names like Cortot, Fauré, Planté, Roger-Ducasse, Roussel and Saint-Saëns appreciated her talent. Louis Beydts dedicated his first work for piano to her.[2] Her qualities as an accompanist were also recognized: she was the reference accompanist for Louis Rosoor[4][5] and accompanied[A 2] Charles Panzéra in 1931 in Bordeaux.[6]
She trained a very large number of students, many of whom will become virtuosos, composers or teachers.
Family[edit]
She is the mother-in-law of the historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and the grandmother of the writer and director Emmanuel Carrère, the lawyer Nathalie Carrère and the doctor and journalist Marina Carrère d'Encausse.
Sources[edit]
- A. Edmond Cardoze, Musique et musiciens en Aquitaine, Aubéron, 1992
References[edit]
- ^ Name that inspired her daughter-in-law's pen name Hélène Carrère d'Encausse; see: Intermédiaire des chercheurs & curieux, n° 486-496 (1992), p. 77.
- ^ a b c Jean et Bernard Guérin, Des hommes et des activités - autour d'un demi-siècle, Éditions B.E.B., 1957, p. 141-142.
- ^ Joseph Lajugie et Ch. Higounet (éd.), Histoire de Bordeaux, volume 7 : Bordeaux au XXe, Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, 1962-1974, p. 655.
- ^ They were among the first interpreters of Debussy's Sonata for cello and piano; see: Stephen Sensbach, French cello sonatas, 1871-1939, Lilliput Press, 2001, p. 53.
- ^ For example: as early as 1918 in Arcachon, on 1923 in Paris, in 1926 in Arcachon and in 1941 in Bordeaux for a series of four cello recitals.
- ^ Le Ménestrel 11 December 1931.
