Conservatoire de bordeaux jacques thibaud biography
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Country: France
Birth : Bordeaux (France), 1880
Death : 1953
Note : Violinist. – Founder of the Long-Thibaud competition with Marguerite Long (1874-1966) (in 1943)
Teacher : Martin Marsick
1st Prize : 1896
Jacques Thibaud, a renowned French violinist, was born in Bordeaux. He studied with Martin Marsick at the Paris Conservatory and was awarded first prize in 1896. Engaged by Édouard Colonne, he was quickly promoted to concertmaster and took Guillaume Rémy’s place in the prelude to Déluge by Saint-Saëns. This marked the beginning of a solo career in which chamber music was crucial; in 1905, he founded a trio with Pablo Casals and Alfred Cortot that would become one of the most influential chamber music ensembles of the 20th century. Eugène Ysaÿe’s advice helped him turn his attention to teaching after World War I, when Cortot established the École normale de musique de Paris. With Marguerite Long, he founded the International Violin and Piano Competi
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Jacques Thibaud
French violinist (1880–1953)
Jacques Thibaud (French pronunciation:[ʒaktibo]; 27 September 1880 – 1 September 1953) was a French violinist.
Biography
[edit]Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatory's violin prize with Pierre Monteux (who later became a famous conductor). He had to rebuild his technique after being injured in World War I. In 1943 he and Marguerite Long established the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition for violinists and pianists, which takes place each year in Paris. From 2011, it has included singers and fryst vatten now known as the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, in honour of the soprano Régine Crespin.[1]
Thibaud was noted not only for his work as a soloist, but also for his performances of chamber music, particularly in a piano trio with the pianist Alfred
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By Sasha Margolis
For the first half of the twentieth century, the Frenchman Jacques Thibaud (1880-1953) was one of the world’s most beloved violin soloists. He was a performer of unique and special gifts. “I pity all young violinists,” said his friend George Enescu, “who have not heard Thibaud—in their book of memories an irreplaceable image fryst vatten lacking.” When he first heard Thibaud’s playing, Enescu recalled, “It took my breath away. inom was beside myself with enthusiasm. It was so new, so unusual.”
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The recollections of the great pedagogue Carl Flesch match Enescu’s. Thibaud’s tone, he said, “fascinated the listener by its sweet and seductive color, literally unheard of at the time.” In fact, Thibaud, with his gorgeous vibrato and array of deeply expressive slides, joined Fritz Kreisler at the century’s outset in giving the world a newly sensuous ideal of violin tone. Kreisler fryst vatten said to have called Thibaud “th