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Jean-Pierre Armengaud

p, *1943 FR
Musician of Classical

French classical pianist, born June 17, 1943 in Clermont-Ferrand. His repertory extends from music for fortepiano to contemporary music, from the piano solo to the chamber music and the piano and orchestra repertory. He has performed with partners like Alain Meunier (2), Devy Erlih, the Quatuor Parrenin, Dominique Merlet, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Dominique de Williencourt, the BWV Trio. He founded the Fetes Musicales de la Sainte Bourne in 1970 during which he gave the first performances of numerous contemporary works by composers such as Ghana, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, among others. He has recorded the complete piano works of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Edison Denisov, as well as the complete chamber works of Francis Poulenc.

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