Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

ABBÉ BOUDAL – LAURENT MARTIN – MÉLANIE BONIS

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/abb%C3%A9-boudal-laurent-martin-m%C3%A9lanie-bonis-17b92352754f

 

The piano is a 19th-century evolution of an older pianoforte that Beethoven tolerated or suffered from but probably hearing in his deafness the modern piano. Technically it was a revolution after the harpsichord and of course, all the organs going back to medieval times.

 In this piano revolution, salon music, music for the few well-off families and aristocrats plus their friends and relatives in their private but grandiose homes became a habit and this enabled women, I mean girls, to practice early with a piano teacher and quite a few could have become interesting performers or composers, but only very few did achieve anything in their life and yet after their death, they went back to the memorized oblivion of non-existence.

That’s where Laurent Martin intervenes, along with quite a few others, and now some organizations dedicate their existence to promoting these female composers, after rediscovering and republishing, at times publishing for the first time, their music. Laurent Martin, and he confirmed it on August 12 in Olmet after the concert, does not make any gender difference. Then we could maybe ask the simple question of the motivations and the psycho-cultural particularities (left and right brain, or top and bottom brain, for example) of these female composers that could be different from their male counterparts.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2023

Music,  *  Piano,  *  Women Composers And Musicians,  *  John the Baptist,  *  Laurent Martin