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8/10/2012

 
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Name: Luc Ferrari

Date of Birth: 05 February 1929

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Luc Ferrari is a French composer. He was born on 05 February 1929 in Paris, France. He died on 22 August 2005 in Arezzo in Italy.

Since he was young, Ferrari trained in music and went on with his piano and composition studies. However, a case of tuberculosis cut short his career as a pianist. After this, he concentrated more on musical composition. When he was sick with tuberculosis, he got the chance to become familiar with the radio receiver. Music pioneers such as Berg, Schönberg, Webern and others supported him in his goal to distance himself from the teachings of his first conservatoires.

He took part in the ‘Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt’ from 1954 to 1958. By participating in these international vacation courses he was able to develop friendly associations with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Luigi Nono, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, and Edgard Varèse.

Captivated by ‘Déserts’ from Edgard Varèse, he went to New York to visit this artist in 1954. He was able to compose various piano pieces while he was on this trip. Moreover, his collaboration with Pierre Schaeffer from 1957 to 1966 and his attraction to musique concrète led him to broaden the concept of abstract music. Portable tape recorders gave him the chance to gather the needed sound for his music piece ‘Hétérozygote’, his first composition which he called as ‘anecdotic music’.

 
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She later resumed her studies under Reicha. Upon finishing her interrupted studies, he went back to concerts and grew considerably famous during the 1830s. In the early of the 1840s, her reputation remained consistent, until she was appointed as Professor of Piano in Paris Conservatory, which was a permanent position, in 1842. It was indeed one of the most famous in Europe, and she held the said position for 30 years. However, for about 10 years, she was receiving less compensation than the males. It was only when her nonet successfully premiered, which also featured Joseph Joachim, a famous violinist, when she demanded that she receive the same pay her male counterparts were receiving.

Aside from performing and teaching, Louis Farrenc also edited and produced a book on early performance styles in music. Her reputation stayed on with her name being mentioned in other books such as Antoine François Marmontel’s Pianistes célèbres even after her death. BY 1850, her nonet gained some fame, as well as her trios and two piano quintets. However, her chamber music apparently fell into oblivion after she died.

She first composed only for the piano from the 1820s to the 1830s. When some of her pieces received high praises from critics like Schumann, she gave some try in making larger compositions, this time, for both orchestra and chamber music. She wrote most of her chamber music during the 1840s. Eventually, her chamber music was regarded as the best ones among her works.

 
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Name: Louise Farrenc

Date of Birth: 31 May 1804

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Louise Farrenc (31 May 1804–15 September 1875) was a virtuosa pianist, teacher and composer in France. Her full name was Jeanne-Louise Dumont and she was born in Paris, France. She was one of the children of the famous sculptor named Jacques-Edme Dumont. Auguste Dumont was her sister.

She started to study playing the piano at a young age. She studied with a former Muzio Clement student, a Senora Soria. Loius’ incredible genius with the piano brought her to training with masters such as Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Ignaz Moscheles. It was also clear that she could compose well, for which her parents sent her to Anton Reicha to study composition. During the time, Reicha was also teaching at the Conservatoire, which held a composition class only open for male students.

Lousie eventually got to know a flute student, Aristide Farrenc, who was 10 years ahead of her. And in 1821, they wedded.

Later on, Louise Farrenc took a break in her studies to perform in concerts all over France. Her husband performed together with her. When Aristide finally got tired of performing concerts, he began his publishing house, which was named Éditions Farrenc, in Paris. For around 40 years, it became one of the leading music publishers in France.

 
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Through Est and Ouest and BEPI, Gaucher joined the anti-Communist networks of Georges Albertini. In the 1950s, Gaucher joined the Rassemblement national of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour where he became the secretary general.

In October of 1972, he co-founded the National Front where he became a part of the organisation’s directing committee. However, in 1974, he took part in the organisation’s split. This led him to join the Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN), which gather the radical activists that thought Jean-Marie Le Pen was too moderate. In 1979, Gaucher left the PFN and joined FN again.

In 1986, Roland Gaucher replaced Dominique Chaboche at the European Parliament. He became the vice-president of Europe’s delegation to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

In 1984, Gaucher founded the National-Hebdo, the weekly of FN. He served as the chief editor of National-Hebdo until 1993.

He distanced himself from Le Pen’s FN in 1993 after he said that it was too institutional. As the time, he came closer to the other structures of the far-right such as the Alliance Populaire (Popular Alliance) and the Militant.

He died on 27 July 2007.

 
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Name: Roland Gaucher
Date of Birth: 1919 — 2007
Place of Birth: Paris, France

Roland Gaucher was Roland Goguillot’s pseudonym. Gaucher was far-right politician and journalist in France. He is one of the far-right’s main thinkers. He participated in the Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP), the fascist party of Marcel Déat's, during the Vichy regime. When the war ended, he was sentenced to prison for years because of collaborationism. Later, he pursued a journalism career while continuing with his political activism. In October of 1972, he co-founded the National Front (FN). In 1986, Gaucher became a Member of the European Parliament.

Roland Gaucher started his political career as an activist for the far-left. He began by becoming part of the Fédération des étudiants révolutionnaires (Federation of Revolutionary Students). Later, he joined the Jeunesses socialistes ouvrières (Workers' Socialist Youth).

However, during the Second World War, he moved to the far-right. In March of 1942, he joined Rassemblement National Populaire (RNP), Marcel Déat's fascist party. From May until November in 1943, Gaucher was responsible for the youth organisation of the RNP as well as of RNP’s Parisian section. During the Liberation, Gaucher was responsible for destroying the archive of the readers of the National Populaire, as this was the RNP’s mouthpiece. According to the diary of Marcel Déat's, Gaucher fled to Sigmaringen in Germany with the men of Marshal Philippe Pétain in 1944.