René Herbin

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René Herbin (1911 – 1 September 1953) was a French composer and pianist. He was killed in the Mount Cimet air disaster in the French Alps. [1]

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Life

Born in Vitry-le-François, Herbin entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 14. There he studied piano with Isidore Philipp and composition with Noël Gallon and Henri Busser. He won two First Prizes. At 26, he accompanied the cellist Maurice Maréchal on a tour of the Middle East. After the Second World War broke out, Herbin was mobilized in 1939. He was taken prisoner in Germany where he remained in captivity for nearly five years in several forced labour camps. Interned in very precarious conditions, he nevertheless managed to write many works: a Sonata for violin and piano, Deïrdre des Douleurs for chamber orchestra, Sonata for piano, Album d'images, Preludes baroques, for piano. Returning to Paris in 1945, he resumed his activities as a pianist and composer, and premiered his first piano quartet in 1949 with the Trio Pasquier. [2] In the early 1950s, he received commissions for work from the State and Radio [ vague ]. It was on this occasion that he composed Trois Songes pour orchestre (1951) and the Concerto pour piano (1952) whose posthumous premiere was ensured in 1956 by Vlado Perlemuter.

Death

On September 1, 1953, René Herbin, accompanied by the violinist Jacques Thibaud, boarded the Paris–Saigon flight, the city where the musicians were expected to perform in concert. As they approached the planned stopover at Nice airport, their plane crashed on Mount Cimet in the French Alps. There were no survivors among the 42 people on board.

Société Musicale René Herbin

In 1992, Elizabeth Herbin, [3] pianist and daughter of the composer, founded the Société Musicale René Herbin, [4] which was then presided over by Vlado Perlemuter and Henri Dutilleux. Its purpose is to make the man and his work known, and to disseminate his music, which is still not widely known and not very well recorded. It thus repairs what the untimely death of a 42-year-old musician recognized by his peers [5] took away from the French musical life of the first half of the 20th century.

Compositions

List of works by Herbin

Recordings

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