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Marthe Servine (b.19__, d.1972) was a French-American composer and pianist, primarily known for her works for solo piano, and songs. == Biography == Marthe Servine was born in Paris of French parents.〔Straus, Noel. ("Concert is given by Roth Quartet: Marthe Servine, composer, is heard at piano with string group at Town Hall" ), New York Times, Amusements, p. 21, 1941, February 10, 1941, retrieved August 19, 2013.〕 She was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10 and became an American citizen.〔 She returned to France to study music.〔 She studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire 〔The Roth String Quartet in a Program of Compositions by Marthe Servine. Program for concert at Town Hall, New York, NY, Feb. 9, 1941.〕 and made her debut at the age of 12.〔Perkins, Francis D. Marthe Servine plays at recital of own works: heard with Roth Quartet in program of 2 quintets and violin-piano sonata. New York Tribune, February 10, 1941.〕 At her debut she played the Mendelssohn G Minor Concerto, under Xaver Scharwenka.〔 She continued her piano studies with Vasily Safonov.〔 She also studied composition with André Gedalge, the teacher of Honegger, Milhaud, and Ravel.〔 Sometime before or during 1919, Servine returned to the U.S. She gave a piano recital on March 8, 1919, at Aeolian Hall, in New York.〔Huneker, James Gibbons. ("Marthe Servine in piano recital" ), New York Times, p.13, March 9, 1919.〕 At this concert, she performed exclusively her own compositions,〔 a trait shared by all of her known concerts, as is shown by her concert programs.〔("Marthe Servine Scores" ), JOB-76-13, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.〕 After 1919, but before 1924, Servine moved back to Europe, where the captions on her manuscripts show that she spent some time in France and some in Britain.〔 She gave many concerts in Britain, all known ones consisting of her own works, and all with herself at the piano.〔 Her works were also played in concerts of which she was not a part, by the Brosa and Kutcher String Quartets,〔 among others, and “many distinguished British singers have featured her songs.”〔 In 1939 or 1940, Servine returned to New York.〔〔 She took up residence in the Upper West Side,〔 and gave one concert, on February 9, 1941.〔C. The Roth String Quartet. ''Musical America''. Feb. 25, 1941.〕〔I.K. Compositions of Servine played by Roth String Quartet. ''New York Sun''. Feb. 10, 1941.〕〔J.B. Roth Quartet plays works by Servine. ''New York Post''. Feb. 10, 1941.〕〔Anon. The Roth String Quartet. ''The Musician''. March, 1941.〕 The performers included the Roth Quartet and herself at the piano.〔〔〔〔〔 The concert was well received, garnering several positive reviews from major New York newspapers.〔〔〔〔〔〔〔 In the ''New York Sun'' review, she was described as a “vigorous person of middle years”.〔 F. D. Perkins, writing in the ''New-York Tribune'' shortly after the concert, described her music as showing “solid and well-schooled musicianship and knowledge of form and of generosity in regard to melody”.〔 Her style was “pervaded by the atmosphere of late nineteenth century romanticism…(occasionally called to mind ) Brahms and Cesar Frank, or…MacDowell. The B flat quintet had one rising phrase in the strings which recalled Wagner”.〔 In the early 1940s, Servine married American Malcolm Dougherty, and around the year 1945 they moved together to Great Barrington, Massachusetts.〔 Her song cycle “The Year” was captioned “Great Barrington, 1945”.〔 She lived there until her death in 1972.〔 Her last known work is a draft of a Prelude for two pianos, dated October 28-November 1, 1972.〔 In 1973, her husband donated the collection to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marthe Servine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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