Aristide Farrenc

Jacques Hippolyte Aristide Farrenc (9 April 1794 – 31 January 1865[1]) was a French flautist, musicologist and music publisher.

Aristide Farrenc
Born
Jacques Hippolyte Aristide Farrenc

9 April 1794
Marseille, France
Died31 January 1865(1865-01-31) (aged 70)
Paris
Occupation
  • Flautist
  • Musicologist
  • Music publisher

Biography

Aristide Farrenc worked as a flautist at the Théâtre italien and founded the Éditions Farrenc, a music publishing company which he left in 1841 to devote himself to musicology.[1]

The most famous work published by Farrenc, in collaboration with his wife Louise Farrenc, was the Trésor des pianistes[1][2] in 20 issues (1861–1872), containing many works of early music for harpsichord (Couperin, Bach, Haendel, Scarlatti, Rameau, etc.), and sonatas for pianoforte such as those by CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, Weber, Beethoven, and Chopin.

His wife Louise Farrenc (née Jeanne-Louise Dumont) was a virtuoso pianist, esteemed teacher and composer. After his death in 1865 she continued to publish the Trésor des pianistes until the 20th and last volume in 1872. Three additional volumes also appeared, but containing the music already published of the first half of the nineteenth century (Hummel, Ries, Weber, Mendelssohn and Chopin).

Works
  • Les Concerts historiques de M. Fétis à Paris,[3] Paris, 1855.
  • Le Trésor des pianistes,[4][5] Paris, 1861; New York, 1977.

References
  1. Honegger, Marc (1979). Dictionnaire de la musique; Tome 1, Les Hommes et leurs œuvres. A-K (in French). Bordas. p. 332. ISBN 2-0401-0721-5.
  2. Trésor des pianistes on Gallica, accessed 12 December 2020
  3. Les Concerts historiques de M. Fétis à Paris on WorldCat
  4. Le Trésor des pianistes musopen.org
  5. Le Trésor des pianistes pianorarescores.com
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