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Revision as of 09:05, 29 October 2021 by Gerda Arendt (talk | contribs) (French organist, prepared by LouisAlain as a translation of de:Frédéric Blanc)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) French composer and organistFrédéric Blanc (born 1967 in Bordeaux) is a French composer, organist and improvisor.
Life
Born in Bordeaux in 1967, Blanc first studied law for a year, then organ at the conservatories of Toulouse and Bordeaux with André Fleury, Marie-Claire Alain, Pierre Cogen and, from 1991, with Marie-Madeleine Duruflé. He is considered Duruflé's last pupil, took over many of her manuscripts and now lives in her former apartment.
From 1987 to 1995, he was assistant organist at the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, and from 1993 to 1999 lecturer in organ at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. Since 1999, Blanc has been titular organist at Notre-Dame d'Auteuil in Paris. In August 2003, he was a lecturer at the International Altenberg Organ Academy for Improvisation. He is also a member of the organ commission of Paris and a member of the commission for non-historic organs in the music department of the French Ministry of Culture.
He won numerous competitions, including the Grand Prix de Chartres [fr] (1996) and the international organ competition Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris (1997).
Blanc has held organ masterclasses, for example at the Royal Academy of Music in London and increasingly at U.S. universities, such as Valparaiso University, Indiana, Stanford University, California, Hope College in Holland, Michigan, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, University of Michigan and Arizona State University.
Competitions
- 1997: Grand Prix d'improvisation, at the international organ competition Concours internationaux de la Ville de Paris
- 1996: Second prize at the Grand Prix de Chartres
- 1996: Audience prize at the organ competition of the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg [de]
- 1994: Prize winner at the organ competition of the AGO in Dallas
- 1989: Finalist at the organ competition of Strasbourg
Publications
- Frédéric Blanc, François Sabatier (ed.): André Fleury (1903–1995). In: L'Orgue: Cahiers et memoirs No. 55. Association des Amis de l'Orgue, Paris 1996.
- Maurice Duruflé - Mémoires et écrits 1936–1986. Editions Seguier, Biarritz 2005, ISBN 2-84049-411-6.
- Berceuse à la mémoire de Louis Vierne. Reconstruction of improvisations by Pierre Cochereau. Éditions Chantraine/Musikverlag Dr. J. Butz, 1997.
Recording
- Messe improvisée – 7 méditations sur le livre de la Genèse. Motets 11451.
- Livre d'orgue improvisé. Motets 11831.
- Live Improvisations. 1999, Aeolus AE-10091, CD (Organs of Chartres Cathedral, Bonn Minster, Angoulême Cathedral and Saint-Sernin, Toulouse).
- Hommage à André Fleury Vol. 2. 2002, Aeolus AE-10151, CD (Église Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil).
- Improvisations pour le temps pascal. 2003, Disque Baroque Notes 2003, CD (Aeolian Skinner organ of the Perkins Chapel of the UDallas University).
References
- "Lebenslauf". frederic-blanc.fr. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- Frédéric Blanc, organiste : l’improvisation au sommet (in French) resmusica.com 19 February 2012
- Frédéric Blanc, orgue (in French) eol.asso
- Frédéric Blanc (in French) babelio.com
- "Eighth Annual Organ Concert Series, 2011-2012". 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- 29 mars 2019 – Frédéric Blanc (in French) orgue-st-bruno-bordeaux.fr 2019
- Église Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil musiqueorguequebec.ca
- Frédéric Blanc (in French) aeolus-music.com