Meet and extraordinary, forgotten woman: Marie Jaëll!
Born as Marie Trautmann in 1846, she started playing Piano at six, and studying under Ignaz Moscheles. Admitted in Paris Conservatory at ten, she was already highly praised in very few years. At twenty, she met the pianist Alfred Jaëll, who became her husband. Together, they were able to run a fruitful career (Marie was the first person to play all Beethoven's Sonatas in concert in France), to met and becoming friends with some of the most acclaimed composer of their time, such Johannes Brahms or Anton Rubinstein. Marie managed to even studying composition with Franz Liszt, Camille SaintSaëns and César Franck. Saint-Saëns even introduced her to the Society of Music Composers (something very rare for a woman).
But there's not only Music, in Marie Jaëll's life. After a tendonitis, she decided to study neuroscience and physiology. She aimed to find a scientific way to connect the spiritual, artistic part of the brain to the physical movement of the muscles and the bones of arms and hands: a connection between mind and body that would result in a connection between the Pianist and the Piano, in what was know later as “Jaëll Method".
She kept playing, composing and teaching (the Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer was among her students), and died in Paris in 1925.
Liszt said that she had “the brain of a philosopher and the fingers of an artist."
We'll now meet this amazing musician and scientist with her two biggest work: her Piano Concertos! The First one, in D minor, and the Second, in C minor.
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