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A Lady Named Jeanne...

jhnbrbr

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Thanks, Corno, that makes me want to hear more of her compositions. I am only familiar with her as a performer at present. I heard once that her mentor Dupre considered her a greater talent than himself.
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Aloha jhnbrbr,

You're very welcome. I have her recordings of Franck - Imho, the best ones out there...

Cheerio,

CD :):):)
 
mathetes1963

mathetes1963

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Corno Dolce said:
Aloha jhnbrbr,

You're very welcome. I have her recordings of Franck - Imho, the best ones out there...

Cheerio,

CD :):):)
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Yes, Demessieux's Franck is unmatched, she was in her prime and the recording is in really good sound, given it's age (late 1950's). I wonder how her work might have developed had she not died so young.

I can't access YT at work so I don't know what piece you linked, but have you ever heard her Six Etudes? The last one, "Octaves" is positively jaw-dropping! :eek:


@jhnbrbr: Am I confused or didn't she and Dupre have a falling out at some point?
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Aloha mathetes1963,

Oh yes indeedy I have - Those etudes separate the men from the boys. :grin::grin::grin:

Cheerio,

CD :):):)
 

acc

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mathetes1963 said:
have you ever heard her Six Etudes? The last one, "Octaves" is positively jaw-dropping! :eek:
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Absolutely! And there are (currently) three versions of it on Youtube:I know that in some circles it's not quite politically correct to say this, but: I think I actually prefer the guy in white here.
 

dll927

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If memory serves me, I once heard her perform at the old First Methodist church in San Jose, CA. My recollection is that she started the program doing Liszt's B-A-C-H. As was true at the time in San Jose, and apparently still is, that organ was't much to write home about, but she did her best with what she had to work with.

I've read that Dupre eventually sort of 'disowned' her. And she was another case of dying too young. She apparently never was in very good health.
 

dll927

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That "guy in black" - where is that organ? It's a six-decker.

Some of these You Tube jobs are a joke - they meander all over the place but never show the organist playing. Could it be that they were made from recordings instead of videos?
 
Corno Dolce

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Aloha dll927,

The *six-decker* is located in the Stifts Basilica in Waldsassen, Germany.

Cheerio,

CD :):):)
 

acc

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dll927 said:
I've read that Dupre eventually sort of 'disowned' her.
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Indeed, he did. It is not clear why exactly; several reasons have been suggested. There is an interesting two-part article in The Diapason:
dll927 said:
And she was another case of dying too young. She apparently never was in very good health.
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She had problems with cancer quite early in her life (she underwent an operation in 1949), and it was cancer that eventually killed her. But her work habits didn't help: during her studies with Dupré, it is said that she worked up to 18 hours a day.

dll927 said:
Some of these You Tube jobs are a joke - they meander all over the place but never show the organist playing. Could it be that they were made from recordings instead of videos?
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This is indeed true for many Youtube videos. But the Waldsassen clip has been put there by the producer of the DVD (Federico Savio). The same is true for the clip mentioned by Corno Dolce (taken from the Aeolus Demessieux-CD-box, put on Youtube by Aeolus themselves).
 
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