Firmin Claude Alexander Leon Touche ( Fr. Firmin Claude Alexandre Léon Touche ; July 25, 1875 , Avignon - 1957 ) - French violinist and music teacher.
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Biography
He graduated from the Paris Conservatory ( 1895 ). In 1898 - 1904 played in the Orchestra of the Concert Society of the Paris Conservatory , then the soloist of the Paris Opera Orchestra and the Colonna Orchestra . For a while he played the second violin in the Maurice Ayo quartet, then he directed his own string quartet, which, among other things, performed the premiere of Introduction and Allegro by Maurice Ravel Op. 46 ( 1907 ) and Quintet Florent Schmitt Op. 51 ( 1909 ); one of the quartet participants was Maurice Vieux . He performed in a duet with pianist Blanche Selva . In 1921 he recorded The Meditation by Jules Massenet and Francois Francoeur 's Siciliana and Ribodon , edited by Kreisler (the piano part was performed by Noel Gallon ) [1] .
Since 1899 , he taught at the Paris Conservatory. Among his students are Raymond Gallois-Montbren , Eduard Melkus , Jean Laurent and others.
Cavalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor (1929).
The son of Firmen Touche, Jean-Claude Touche ( fr. Jean-Claude Touche ; 1926 - 1944 ), a student of Marcel Dupre and Maurice Durufle , was considered to be a promising organist [2] . He was killed in the battles for the liberation of Paris a few months after the end of the Paris Conservatory.