Thierry de Brunhoff

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Thierry de Brunhoff is the son of Jean and Cécile de Brunhoff, creators of Babar the elephant, and younger brother of Laurent de Brunhoff. He started taking piano lessons from Alfred Cortot at the age of 11. Cortot was his greatest musical influence, as he testified several times: "I owe him everything, everything that I can timidly be, I owe him" or "he took you with him, not into another world, but into the heart of the world [...] in overcoming yourself." Thereafter he also studied with Edwin Fischer, before becoming a teacher himself at the École normale de musique de Paris[1] for over ten years. Among his students was Hüseyin Sermet. He is particularly known for his interpretations of Chopin and Schumann (one senses in this the very deep mark of his first master, Cortot), but his repertoire is very broad, from Beethoven to Debussy and Ravel, through Carl Maria von Weber, whose ostracism Brunhoff regrets, even the condescension with which he would be treated by musicians. His preference, however, goes to Chopin, whom he praises in these terms: Piano is Chopin. He was the one who best understood the possibilities of singing and the sound universe of the piano. In 1974, he retired as a monk to the En-Calcat abbey [fr] in the Tarn department[1] and became Brother Thierry Jean. In this regard, he declared in 2004 in a letter to Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier:[2] It seemed to me that if God existed, then you had to dive in and give everything. To give everything was also to gi

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