Bernard Gavoty
Bernard Georges-Marie Gavoty (2 April 1908 – 24 October 1981) was a 20th-century French organist , musicologist , music critic and talk show host.
Biography
Bernard Gavoty was born in 1908 to Raymond Gavoty (a deputy of the Var department; 11 March 1866 - 20 January 1937 in Paris) and Geneviève Magimel (9 October 1875 in Paris - 17 October 1946 ibid.) in the 8th arrondissement of Paris .
After being a pupil of Louis Vierne , Bernard Gavoty entered the Conservatoire de Paris where his classmates for the organ included Denise Launay , Michel Boulnois , Antoine Reboulot , Félicien Wolff and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald .
He held a special place there among the students of Marcel Dupré . Renowned as a brilliant speaker and refined writer, he gave numerous lectures, especially for the Jeunesses musicales de France , and was a noted music critic for Le Figaro under the pseudonym Clarendon , a reference to the principal character of Beaumarchais 's Eugénie .
In 1942, he was appointed the titular organist of the grand organ of the Église Saint-Louis des Invalides which he in 1955 had rebuilt by the Beuchet-Debierre [fr ] company in the neoclassical style. In the 1950s and 1960s, he frequently appeared on the single television channel to discuss classical music.[ 1] [ 2] In 1976, he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts , succeeding Julien Cain in the free members section.
He was also an agricultural engineer, having graduated from the Institut national agronomique [fr ] , and a wine grower in the côtes de Provence .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
Personal life
In 1944, Bernard Gavoty married Victoire Vignon (1916-2003) with whom he had two daughters: Marie-Ange (born 1945) and Cécile (born 1949).
Gavoty passed away in the autumn of 1981 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris .
Bibliography
Louis Vierne : La vie et l'œuvre , Paris, Albin Michel , 1943 ; new ed. 1979 OCLC 2500413
Jehan Alain , musicien français , Paris, Albin Michel, 1945 ; reissued Éditions d'Aujourd'hui, coll. « Introuvables », 1985 OCLC 21548494
Les Français sont-ils musiciens ? , éditions Conquistador, 1950
Deux capitales romantiques : Vienne Paris , Société française de diffusion musicale et artistique,1953
Pour ou contre la musique nouvelle ? , with François Lesure , Flammarion
Carl Schuricht , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1954
Edwin Fischer , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1954
Walter Gieseking , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1954 OCLC 12169813
Wilhelm Kempff , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1954
Roberto Benzi , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1954
Alfred Cortot , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1955
Pablo Casals , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1955 OCLC 802804623
André Cluytens , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1955 OCLC 901885362
Yehudi Menuhin et Georges Enesco , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1955 OCLC 422015293
Arthur Rubinstein , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1955 OCLC 46637333
Samson François , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1956 OCLC 58820657
Wanda Landowska , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1956 OCLC 898902067
Victoria de los Ángeles , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1956 OCLC 470639068
Nathan Milstein , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1956 OCLC 715079166
Bruno Walter Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1956 OCLC 47065527
Witold Malcuzynski , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1957 OCLC 901885161
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Geneva, series Les grands interprètes , René Kister, 1957 OCLC 718247457
La Musique adoucit les mœurs ? , Paris, Gallimard, 1959
Chopin amoureux , La Palatine, 1960
Dix grands musiciens , Gautier-Languereau , 1962
Vingt grands interprètes , Lausanne, Rencontres, 1966.
Lettre d'Alexis Weissenberg à Bernard Gavoty , 1966
L'Arme à gauche , Beauchesne, 1971
Chopin , Paris, Grasset, 1974
Alfred Cortot , Paris, series Musique , Buchet/Chastel, 1977, rééd. 2012, 378 pages OCLC 810314744
Anicroches , Paris, series Musique », Buchet/Chastel, 1979, 245 pages, OCLC 419232256
Liszt, le virtuose , Paris, Julliard, 1980
Les souvenirs de Georges Enesco , Kryos, 2006
Discography
Camille Saint-Saëns - 3rd symphony, with organ (1975 - Paris, Égise Saint-Louis-des-Invalides - Orchestre National ORTF, conducted by Jean Martinon - EMI Group ),
Louis Vierne : Marche triomphale - César Franck : Prélude, Fugue et Variation - Claude Balbastre : développement sur le Noël populaire « Joseph est bien marié » (Paris, Saint-Louis-des-Invalides) - Erato , dq 105, 1957. Cuivres, dir. Louis Frémaux . Organ: Marcel Dupré ),
Prières à Saint-Louis-des-Invalides : Pierre de Bréville - Gabriel Fauré - Johann Sebastian Bach - César Franck (Paris, Saint-Louis-des-Invalides - Disque Ducretet, M.-R. Chauveau, soprano, 1958 (38),
L'orgue de Saint-Louis-des-Invalides décrit par Bernard Gavoty (Paris, Saint-Louis-des-Invalides - Le Chant du Monde (éditions musicales et label), c. 1960),
Johann Sebastian Bach : les pièces cataloguées BWV 617, 645, 653, 659, 680, 686, 727, 734, 582, 541 (Paris, Saint-Louis-des-Invalides - Le Chant du Monde, 1963).
Theatre
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