Aline van Barentzen

Van Berentzen was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and gave her first concert at the age of four. At a young age, her mother took her to Paris to pursue formal music training. At age seven, she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 and, at nine, she entered the Conservatoire de Paris. There, her teachers were Marguerite Long, Mrs. Marcou and Élie-Miriam Delaborde. and Cyprien Katsaris. She premiered works by Henri Martelli (Fantaisie sur un thème malgache, 1946), Florent Schmitt (Hasards, 1943), and Villa-Lobos' (A prole do bebe n°2, Chôros No. 8, 1925). She also composed for piano under her birth name, Aline Hoyle. She died in the 16th arrondissement of Paris on 30 October 1981. == Discography ==

Selected recordings: • De Falla - Noches en los Jardines de España - Orchestre Symphonique (7 June 1928, Gramophone W 938/40a Matrice CT 4031/35 R). • De Falla - Andaluza (Piezas Españolas n°4) (11 June 1928, Gramophone W 940b Matrice CT 4050). • Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53, Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 (La Voix de son Maître FALP199) • At Trianon in 1961: Daquin, Le Coucou; Rameau, La Poule; Mozart's Rondo à la turque (de la Sonate K.331); Beethoven's Für Elise; K.M. Weber, Perpetuum mobile (from Sonata Op. 24); Schubert's Mouvement musical D.780/3; Mendelssohn's 3 Chansons sans paroles; Schumann's Dreaming Op. 15/7 (from Kinderszenen); Chopin's Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2; Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Liebestraum No. 3; Brahms's Valz Op. 39/15; Debussy's Clair de lune (3rd mvt of the Suite bergamasque); Ravel's Rigaudon (Le Tombeau de Couperin) ; Poulenc's Mouvement perpétuel n°1; Villa-Lobos, O Polichinelo. Sound documents: • Beethoven's Choral Fantasy - Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion, conductor Roger Désormière, in public and broadcast from the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 20 May 1948. • Cortège Burlesque, last movement of the piano concerto (Concert dans un Parc) by André Lavagne. == Bibliography ==