Jean Françaix

Jean René Désiré Françaix (May 23, 1912, Le Mans – September 25, 1997, Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.

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Françaix's natural gifts were encouraged from an early age by his family: his father, Director of the Conservatoire of Le Mans, was a musicologist, composer, and pianist, and his mother, a teacher of singing. He was only six when he took up composing, and his first publication, in 1922, caught the attention of a composer working for the publishing house who steered the gifted boy toward a gifted teacher, Nadia Boulanger. She encouraged Françaix's career, considering the young composer to be one of the best, if not the best, of her students. Françaix himself often played his own works, to public acclaim; notably in the premier of his Concertino for Piano and Orchestra at the festival of Baden-Baden in 1932.

Le Mans: Le Mans (pronounced in French) is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. It is the pr?fecture (capital) of the Sarthe d?partement. At the 1999 French census, there were 293,159 inhabitants in the metropolitan area (aire urbaine) of Le Mans, with 146,105 of these living in the city proper (c...

Neoclassical: Neoclassical may refer to:...

Composer: A composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. This distinguishes the composer from a musician who improvises. However, a person may be called a composer without creating m...

Jean Françaix related Images and Photos (experimental)

Marina Vlady and Jean-François Poron: La Princesse de Clèves 1961	Jean Gabin and Françoise Christophe: Victor 1951	Françoise Arnoul and Jean-Paul Vignon: Asphalte 1959	Françoise Arnoul Jean-Paul Vignon Georges Rivière and Dany Saval: Asphalte 1959
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Françoise Brion: Le Coeur Battant 1960	Jean-Paul Belmondo Dany Robin and Paul Meurisse: La Française et L'Amour 1960	Jacqueline Porel Pierre-Jean Vaillard Martine Lambert and Bibi Morat: La Française et L'Amour 19	Jean Kent
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