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Name
  
Blanche Selva

Education
  
Conservatoire de Paris

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Died
  
1942, Saint-Amant-Tallende, France

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Marie Blanche Selva (Catalan Blanca Selva i Henry, 29 January 1884 – 3 December 1942) was a French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Catalan origin.

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Biography

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Blanche Selva was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in Correze. As a child she studied piano with a number of teachers, took preparatory classes with Sophie Chene, and was admitted to the Paris Conservatory in 1893. She studied with Alphonse Duvernoy and won a medal in competition, but left the Conservatory without graduating.

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Her family moved to Geneva, and Selva began giving concerts at the age of 13 in Lausanne. She studied with Vincent d'Indy in Valencia, and became a professor at the Schola Cantorum de Paris in December 1901, later taking positions at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, and the Prague Conservatory. Blanche Selva was the only French pianist of her time to specialise in Czech music, and she was consequently very popular in Czechoslovakia. She continued to tour and work as a concert pianist in Europe. By the age of 20 she had performed all of J.S. Bach's keyboard works in 17 recitals. Between 1906 and 1909 she premiered all four books of Isaac Albeniz's piano suite Iberia.

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In 1924 Selva moved to Barcelona, where she founded her own music school and performed in a duo with violinist Joan Massia, whom she married. In 1930 she developed a paralysis that ended her performing career, but she continued teaching, writing and composing.

In 1936 she left Barcelona because of the Spanish Civil War and lived for a while in Marseille, then Moulins, Allier, and Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne. Suffering from cancer, she entered a hospital in Saint-Amant-Tallende, where she died in December 1942 at age 58.

Writings

Blanche Selva was active as a translator and transcriptionist, and published several texts on piano technique, including:

  • Music Teaching of Piano Technique (7 volumes), Paris from 1916 to 1925
  • She also published professional articles in magazines and journals including Tablettes de la Schola, Le Monde Musical, La Revue Musicale and Le Revista Musical Catalana. Selected articles include:

  • "The Sonata, Study of its historical and expressive for the interpretation and hearing", Paris 1913
  • "Sonatas by Beethoven", Barcelona 1927
  • "Monograph on Deodat de Severac", Paris 1930
  • Works

    Selected compositions include:

    Music for piano/organ

  • Paysage au soleil couchant (1904)
  • Suite (Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Burla, Chanson, Farandole) for piano (1904)
  • Cloches dans la brume for piano (1905)
  • Cloches au soleil for piano (1905)
  • Pieces for piano (1908)
  • Petite piece for organ (1908)
  • La Vasque aux Colombes (1921)
  • Primers Jocs for piano (1931)
  • Le jeu du pentacorde qui vole, exercise for piano (1940)
  • Transcriptions pour piano d'œuvres de Vincent d'Indy et Cesar Franck (1910–1912)
  • Vocal and choral music

  • Les Ancetres du Lys (1905)
  • Rosaire d'apres Francis Jammes (1906)
  • Venez sous la tonnelle d'apres Francis Jammes (1908)
  • Muntanya blava for voice and piano (1928)
  • Mes de Maria for voice and piano (1929)
  • Dix melodies sur des poemes catalans (1935)
  • La Farigola (1926)
  • El Tronc (1929)
  • Quicumque Enim Spiritu Dei Aguntur (1929)
  • Pensament Matinal (1931)
  • O Fleurs des fleurs d'apres Blanche Selva (1939)
  • Chamber and orchestral music

  • La Nit de la Purissima (1929)
  • Quatre pieces pour violon et piano (1934)
  • Poeme de la Resureccio ou Oratorio pascal (manuscript lost, 1938)
  • Recordings

    Selva's works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

  • Blanche Selva, une promenade musicale (Blanche Selva Association and the Centre International Albert Roussel)
  • Malibran-Music (Association and Blanche Selva 2002).
  • References

    Blanche Selva Wikipedia