法国天才女小提琴家,也是二十世纪最著名的女性小提琴家之一。她出生于巴黎的一个音乐家庭,尚在襁褓中便能听曲哼歌,学走路不久就开始跟母亲学琴,7岁即在音乐会上独奏,11岁获奖学金进巴黎音乐学院。先后受学于埃乃斯库(Georges Eescu)和弗莱什(Carl Flesch),1935年参加华沙维尼亚夫斯基国际比赛获第一名。此后在各地演奏,二战期间中断了演出。战后在伦敦复出,随后在世界乐坛掀起一阵内芙热,当时没有任何一位小提琴家可与之比拟。内芙的演奏,以音色的美妙、变化多端著称,句法处理有一种清新秀美感,可惜1949年她年仅30岁就死于飞机失事。虽然内芙的演奏生涯仅有短短的十几年,但耀眼的光芒至今仍未曾稍减。她演奏的勃拉姆斯、西贝柳斯的协奏曲,在当时曾以华丽著称,是值得珍惜的名贵录音。
Ginette Neveu (11 August 1919 – 28 October 1949) was a French classical violinist who was killed in a plane crash at the age of 30.
Ginette Neveu was born in Paris into a musical family: Her brother Jean-Paul Neveu became a classical pianist, and the composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor was their great-uncle. A child prodigy, Ginette Neveu took violin lessons from her mother and made her solo debut at the age of seven with the Concerts Colonne in Paris. Her parents then decided to send her to study under Line Talluel, and after further studies with Jules Boucherit at the Conservatoire de Paris, she completed her training with instruction from George Enescu, Nadia Boulanger, and Carl Flesch.
At age 16, Ginette Neveu achieved worldwide celebrity status when she won the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition over 180 contestants, including the future virtuoso David Oistrakh, who finished second, and Henri Temianka, who finished third. Neveu was immediately signed to an extensive touring contract that over the next two years saw her give solo performances at the leading concert halls of Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Canada.
Neveu's international career was interrupted by World War II, but she was finally able to make her London debut in 1945. Her brother Jean-Paul accompanied her on piano, and the two toured postwar Europe extensively, appearing at the Prague Spring International Music Festival as well as visiting Australia and South America. They also played return engagements at major venues in the United States. Noted for her intensity, power, and impeccable sonority, Ginette Neveu is recognized as one of the great violinists of her era despite her young age at the time her career was ended.
Among the works she premiered were the Violin Concerto by Federico Elizalde and the Violin Sonata by Francis Poulenc, which he composed on her insistence and premiered with her on 21 June 1943.
Neveu gave her last concert on 20 October 1949. On 28 October, she was on board an Air France flight from Paris en route to another series of concert engagements when it crashed on a mountain after two failed attempts to make a landing at the São Miguel Island airport in the Azores. All 48 people on board the flight died, including Ginette, Jean-Paul Neveu, and the French boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. During the return of the bodies to France, Neveu's coffin was confused with that of another victim, Amélie Ringler. The funeral for Ringler had taken place before the error was discovered. On 28 November, Neveu's brother-in-law identified her remains in the coffin disinterred from the graveyard in Bantzenheim.
Édith Piaf, Marcel Cerdan's lover at the time, wrote of Neveu in her autobiography, The Wheel of Fortune: "I would have traveled thousands of miles to hear the great Ginette Neveu...."
法国天才女小提琴家,也是二十世纪最著名的女性小提琴家之一。她出生于巴黎的一个音乐家庭,尚在襁褓中便能听曲哼歌,学走路不久就开始跟母亲学琴,7岁即在音乐会上独奏,11岁获奖学金进巴黎音乐学院。先后受学于埃乃斯库(Georges Eescu)和弗莱什(Carl Flesch),1935年参加华沙维尼亚夫斯基国际比赛获第一名。此后在各地演奏,二战期间中断了演出。战后在伦敦复出,随后在世界乐坛掀起一阵内芙热,当时没有任何一位小提琴家可与之比拟。内芙的演奏,以音色的美妙、变化多端著称,句法处理有一种清新秀美感,可惜1949年她年仅30岁就死于飞机失事。虽然内芙的演奏生涯仅有短短的十几年,但耀眼的光芒至今仍未曾稍减。她演奏的勃拉姆斯、西贝柳斯的协奏曲,在当时曾以华丽著称,是值得珍惜的名贵录音。
Ginette Neveu (11 August 1919 – 28 October 1949) was a French classical violinist who was killed in a plane crash at the age of 30.
Ginette Neveu was born in Paris into a musical family: Her brother Jean-Paul Neveu became a classical pianist, and the composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor was their great-uncle. A child prodigy, Ginette Neveu took violin lessons from her mother and made her solo debut at the age of seven with the Concerts Colonne in Paris. Her parents then decided to send her to study under Line Talluel, and after further studies with Jules Boucherit at the Conservatoire de Paris, she completed her training with instruction from George Enescu, Nadia Boulanger, and Carl Flesch.
At age 16, Ginette Neveu achieved worldwide celebrity status when she won the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition over 180 contestants, including the future virtuoso David Oistrakh, who finished second, and Henri Temianka, who finished third. Neveu was immediately signed to an extensive touring contract that over the next two years saw her give solo performances at the leading concert halls of Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Canada.
Neveu's international career was interrupted by World War II, but she was finally able to make her London debut in 1945. Her brother Jean-Paul accompanied her on piano, and the two toured postwar Europe extensively, appearing at the Prague Spring International Music Festival as well as visiting Australia and South America. They also played return engagements at major venues in the United States. Noted for her intensity, power, and impeccable sonority, Ginette Neveu is recognized as one of the great violinists of her era despite her young age at the time her career was ended.
Among the works she premiered were the Violin Concerto by Federico Elizalde and the Violin Sonata by Francis Poulenc, which he composed on her insistence and premiered with her on 21 June 1943.
Neveu gave her last concert on 20 October 1949. On 28 October, she was on board an Air France flight from Paris en route to another series of concert engagements when it crashed on a mountain after two failed attempts to make a landing at the São Miguel Island airport in the Azores. All 48 people on board the flight died, including Ginette, Jean-Paul Neveu, and the French boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. During the return of the bodies to France, Neveu's coffin was confused with that of another victim, Amélie Ringler. The funeral for Ringler had taken place before the error was discovered. On 28 November, Neveu's brother-in-law identified her remains in the coffin disinterred from the graveyard in Bantzenheim.
Édith Piaf, Marcel Cerdan's lover at the time, wrote of Neveu in her autobiography, The Wheel of Fortune: "I would have traveled thousands of miles to hear the great Ginette Neveu...."