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Bernard Ringeissen

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Bernard Ringeissen (15 May 1934[1] – 4 April 2025) was a French classical pianist.

He was born in Paris in 1934. His first teacher, at age 7, was Georges de Lausnay.[1] He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1947, aged 12, and won the Premier Prix when he was sixteen.[2] He had further study with Marguerite Long and Jacques Février.[1] In 1953, he temporarily retired from public performance, to focus on music competition.

In 1954, he won equal 2nd Prize with Sergio Scopelliti at the Alfredo Casella Competition in Naples.[1] He also won the International Music Performance Competition in Geneva that year. In 1955, he won 4th prize at the V International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw; then equal 2nd Prize with Dimitri Bashkirov at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition (no 1st Prize was awarded that year).[1] In 1962, he won 1st Prize at the Rio de Janeiro International Competition and the Villa-Lobos Special Prize for his interpretation of Brazilian music.[1][2]

He had performed widely and served on competition juries in many countries. He taught in Rueil-Malmaison, and gave master-classes at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the International Summer Seminar in Weimar.[1]

Ringeissen died in Gisors on 4 April 2025, at the age of 90.[3]

Discography

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His recordings include the complete piano works by Francis Poulenc (3 LP Adès-7090), Camille Saint-Saëns (5 LP Adès-7069) and Igor Stravinsky (4 LP Adès-7074), by Charles-Valentin Alkan Sonatina / Zorcico / Scherzo / Nocturne / Gigue / Marche / Barcarolle / Saltarelle (LP Harmonia Mundi France – HMA 190927), Symphonie / Ouverture / Etudes, Op.39 (CD Marco Polo – 8.223285) and 12 Études, Op. 35 / Le Festin d'Esope / Scherzo Diabolico (CD Marco Polo – 8.223351), by Frédéric Chopin Etude Op.25/11 / Mazurka Op.30/2 (78rpm Muza – 2687), Etudes Op.10 [4,10] / Etudes Op.25 [2,6,11,12] / Ballade No.1 Op.23 / Scherzo No.3 Op.39 (LP Erato – EFM 42080), Berceuse Op.57 / Fantaisie-Impromptu Op.66 (EP Barclay – 79.015 M), Ballade No.4 Op.52 / Etude Op.10/4 / Nocturne Op.62/2 / Scherzo No.3 Op.39 (LP Polskie Nagrania Muza – L 0061), 24 Preludes Op.28 (LP Wifon–040), Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Op.22 / Barcarolle Op.60 / Écossaises Op.72 / Fantaisie Op.49 / Scherzo No.4 Op.54 / Berceuse Op.57 (LP Ades-14.012), selected piano works by Józef Wieniawski (MC Wifon-0186), selected piano works by Aminollah Hossein (LP Edici – ED 52724), a collection of 'Famous Studies for Piano' by Carl Czerny, Ignaz Moscheles, Moritz Moszkowski, Karol Szymanowski, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Pierné, Frédéric Chopin, Camille Saint-Saëns, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin (LP Columbia – SMC 95048), by Louis Abbiate Piano Sonatas Nos. 4, 5, 6 (LP Calliope – CAL 1873) and the 2 Cello Sonatas with Dimitry Markevitch, cello (LP Calliope – CAL 1862), Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit (LP Polskie Nagrania Muza – L 0061), the music for Two Pianos and Piano 4 hands by Claude Debussy with Noël Lee (2 LP Valois MB 1411-1412), a box with Russian music by the "Groupe des cinq" -Modest Mussorgsky, Mily Balakirev, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, César Cui and Alexander Borodin- (3 LP Adès-7081); together with Baritone Jean-Christophe Benoit 4 Song Cycles by Maurice Ravel (LP Adès-10.002), 5 Piano Pieces and 19 Mélodies by Reynaldo Hahn (LP Adès-14.003), and 16 Chansons by Joseph Kosma (LP Adès-14.001). Among others, his chamber music recordings include a 1957 Cello Sonatas disc with Leslie Parnas, cello (LP Pathé – ASTX 123), by Franz Joseph Haydn 12 Trios for piano (3 LP French Decca 7.317/319) and 8 Sonatas for violin and piano (3 LP French Decca 7.236/239) with Jacques-Francis Manzone, violin and Frédéric Lodéon, cello, by Ernest Chausson 'Concert' for Violin Piano and String Quartet with Jean-Pierre Wallez, violin (LP Adès-14.043). He also recorded Poulenc's Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with Gabriel Tacchino and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra under Georges Prêtre (LP EMI Pathé Marconi – 7473692).

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Bach Cantatas
  2. ^ a b Naxos
  3. ^ Bernard Ringeissen s’est éteint dans sa 90e année (in French)
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