Alfred Cortot

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Alfred Cortot was a renowned 20th-century French-Swiss pianist and conductor, celebrated especially for his interpretations of Romantic repertoire and his influential work as a teacher.

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Alfred Cortot canonical 4
Alfred Denis Cortot 1
Cortot 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf conductor
human
music educator
pianist
activeAsConductorOf Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
centuryOfActivity 20th century
coFounded École Normale de Musique de Paris
coFounderWith Auguste Mangeot
countryOfCitizenship France
Switzerland
dateOfBirth 1877-09-26
dateOfDeath 1962-06-15
educatedAt Conservatoire de Paris
familyName Alfred Cortot self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cortot
fieldOfWork classical music
foundedInYear 1919
fullName Alfred Cortot self-linksurface differs
surface form: Alfred Denis Cortot
genre Impressionist music
Romantic music
givenName Alfred
memberOf Cortot–Thibaud–Casals Trio
nationalityDescription French-Swiss
notableFor interpretations of Claude Debussy
interpretations of Franz Liszt
interpretations of Frédéric Chopin
interpretations of Robert Schumann
interpretations of Romantic piano repertoire
notableStudent Clara Haskil
Dinu Lipatti
Samson François
Yves Nat NERFINISHED
notableWork recordings of Chopin piano works
recordings of Debussy piano works
recordings of Schumann piano works
occupation concert pianist
music teacher
orchestral conductor
performedWith Jacques Thibaud
Pablo Casals
placeOfBirth Nyon
surface form: Nyon, Switzerland
placeOfDeath Lausanne, Switzerland
positionHeld professor at the Conservatoire de Paris
studiedUnder Louis Diémer NERFINISHED
Émile Descombes NERFINISHED
styleCharacteristic emphasis on expressive rubato
priority of musical expression over technical perfection
taughtAt École Normale de Musique de Paris
taughtSubject piano performance
wrote editions of Chopin piano music with fingerings and commentary
editions of Schumann piano music with fingerings and commentary

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Igor Markevitch studiedUnder Alfred Cortot
Alfred Cortot fullName Alfred Cortot self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Alfred Denis Cortot
Alfred Cortot familyName Alfred Cortot self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cortot