Marcel grandjany bio

French musician

Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany (gran-zhə-NEE) (3 September 1891 – 24 February 1975) was a French-American harpist and composer.

Biography

Early life

Marcel Grandjany was born in Paris and began the study of the harp at the age of eight with Henriette Renié. At age eleven, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Alphonse Hasselmans, winning the coveted Premier Prix at age thirteen.

Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany was a French-American harpist and composer.

Marcel Georges Lucien Grandjany was a French-American harpist and composer.

Born in Paris in , the harpist Marcel Grandjany had his early musical training with a relative, Juliette Georges Grandjany, winning a scholarship at the.

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This study is not a comprehensive biography of Marcel Grandjany, but rather a collection of documents related to his life and multiple careers in music.

Marcel Grandjany was a French-American harpist and composer.

Career

At seventeen he made his debut with the Concerts Lamoureux Orchestra, and gave his first solo recital, winning immediate acclaim. He appeared with Maurice Ravel in Paris in 1913. His London debut was in 1922 and his New York debut in 1924.

He appeared as soloist with major orchestras under the direction of Gabriel Pierné, Alfred Cortot, Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, George Szell, Fritz Reiner and Vladimir Golschmann, among others.

From 1921 to 1926, he headed the harp department of the Fontainebleau Su