Maurice Gendron

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Maurice Gendron born near Nice on 26 December 1920, Gendron was brought up in a poor household by his mother and grandmother, his father having deserted them. He could read music at the age of three and began violin lessons at four with his mother, a professional player in the silent cinema; but he did not get on with the instrument and at five changed to a quarter-sized cello specially made for him. When he was ten his teacher Stéphane Odero (in the city of Cannes) took him to hear the virtuoso cellist Emanuel Feuermann, whose playing was a revelation to the boy. He met Feuermann and played for him a number of times but could not afford to travel for lessons to Vienna, Zurich or Feuermann’s final base, New York – and his hero died there during the war, aged 39. Meanwhile Gendron entered the Nice Conservatoire at 12, bat play at only 11 years old the Dvorak cello concerto!, under Jean Mangot, taking a first prize in 1934, and was soon giving local concerts. But his mother had lost her job with the advent of the ‘talkies’ and he was forced to leave the Conservatoire to scrub floors, clean windows and iron shirts in order to help the family finances. In 1938, with the help of his teacher Jean Mangot, who gave him a rail ticket and 1,000 francs, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, in Gérard Hekking’s class. Gendron in his life remember this halp from Jean Mangot and later halp pupils for study when coming from long country to him for study. In Paris Gendron was at 14 years old H

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