How to Pronounce Camille-Marie Stamaty
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Mar 23, 1811 Rome, Lazio, Italy Died on 19 Apr 1870 (aged 59)
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About Camille Marie Stamaty
- Camille-Marie Stamaty (Rome, March 13, 1811 – Paris, April 19, 1870) was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies (études).
- Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris.
- His most famous pupils were Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns. Stamaty was the star pupil of Friedrich Kalkbrenner and heir to Kalkbrenner's teaching method.
- He taught a crisp, fine, even filigree piano playing that concentrated on evenness of scales, independence of fingers and minimum movement of body and arms.Stamaty composed a great number of piano studies (études), various other shorter piano works (the usual waltzes, fantasies, quadrilles, and variations so dear to the 19th century), a piano concerto and some chamber music.
- None of his music is still in the repertoire today, although a good look at his once famous études might be very worthwhile.
- New recordings of his best output (concert études, piano concerto), possibly on period instruments, would be desirable.
