20 Facts About Paul Doguereau

Paul Rene Doguereau was a French pianist and piano teacher.

Paul Doguereau spent most of his career in Boston, United States, where he was a well-respected cultural figure.

At the time Paul Doguereau was preparing for his exam for the Premier Prix of the Conservatoire.

One of the pieces was the Symphonic Etudes of Schumann, and Paul Doguereau practiced them directly across the window from Roger-Ducasse.

Whenever Paul Doguereau spoke of Roger-Ducasse, it was with extraordinary reverence and respect.

Paul Doguereau told his pupil, the pianist David Korevaar, that he had learned much about playing Faure's works from Roger-Ducasse.

Slater told Korevaar that Paul Doguereau played all of Debussy's piano works besides the etudes for the composer's widow, singer Emma Bardac.

Paul Doguereau demonstrated how her husband had performed the works by singing phrases back to Doguereau.

Later, Paul Doguereau took ten lessons with Ignaz Paderewski in New York.

Paul Doguereau met Maurice Ravel in 1928 in New York during Ravel's American tour.

Paul Doguereau had been working at the time for Duo-Art, a recording technology developed by the Aeolian Company.

Part of Paul Doguereau's job was determining which notes on the rolls were wrong, and indicating it to the technicians.

Paul Doguereau was skeptical that Ravel could play "Scarbo", and repeated his skepticism for years.

Paul Doguereau organized concerts, including one by Stravinsky, in Rome in 1935.

Paul Doguereau met Fanny Peabody Mason in 1937 and it proved to be a meeting that would influence the Boston music scene for decades to come.

Paul Doguereau did however continue to perform privately, and in the last year of his life played the last two Chopin Ballades for friends twice at his home in Mt.

Paul Doguereau recorded Daniel Pinkham's Concertino, a work that Pinkham wrote for him in 1950.

Dr David Korevaar, a former student of Paul Doguereau, was able to study the solo material held by the Library of Congress.

Mason and Paul Doguereau shared a vision of presenting classical music as a gift to general audiences.

Paul Doguereau organized the early Peabody Mason Piano Competitions, where he served as President and Artistic Director.