Pierre, Auguste

Auguste Jean Pierre Pierre ( fr. Auguste Jean Pierre Pierret ; May 20, 1874 , de Bigor - 1916 ) - French pianist .

The son of a violinist, received his first music lessons from his father. He graduated from the Paris Conservatory , a student of Louis Diemer .

Best known for participating in the premiere of the Concert for Piano, Violin and String Quartet Ernest Chausson , held on March 4, 1892 in Brussels under the direction of Eugene Isaiah : the originally outlined performer refused to participate three weeks before the performance, citing the difficulty of the party, and Vincent d'Andy , who was preparing the premiere in the absence of the author who had gone on vacation ^[1] , turned to Louis Diemer with a request to provide his best student for the concert ^[2] . Impressed by the success of the premiere concert, Chausson later dedicated his piano quartet Op to Pierre. 30 (1897), first performed by Pierre and musicians from the quartet of Arman Paran (in addition to Paran himself, violist Frederic Denayet and cellist Charles Baretti) on April 2, 1898 in Paris ^[3] . Pierre was also the first performer of Chausson’s piano play “Landscape” (February 13, 1897).

Later, until the outbreak of World War I, he acted as a propagandist of the latest French music abroad, including in Germany, Hungary and Russia, where he gave a number of concerts in 1910 in St. Petersburg ^[4] . At the same time, criticism often met Pierre’s speeches without enthusiasm - for example, one of the reviewers described his performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto in 1906 as “cold, dry and pretentious” ^[5] .

Pierre also studied composition with Chausson and wrote a number of piano and vocal compositions, including the Spleen romance to Paul Verlaine’s poems.