Pietrobono
Jul-30-2006, 2:28am
Mario Monti, my former mandolin teacher, died on last thursday. He was born on Feb, 21st, 1923 and founded in 1950 near Paris the plucked strings orchestra "Estudiantina d'Argenteuil" which he leaded until 1991, when he left the baton to his pupil Florentino Calvo. He was still honor president of the orchestra since then.
He was teaching mandolin at the Argenteuil National Music School from 1969 (guitar from 1966) to 1986 (when he was replaced by Florentino Calvo) and had among his pupils Mathieu Sarthe-Maureou (now teacher at the Argenteuil National Music School beside Florentino Calvo), Julien Martineau (now teacher at the Toulouse Music Conservatory), as well as some ancient mandolin players like Didier Le Roux, Eric Depret and Jean-Paul Bazin, now members of the Ensemble Gabriele Leone.
He was one of the pioneers in researching original early music for mandolin, had good contacts with italian researchers like Alessandro Pitrelli and Ugo Orlandi, and published many modern editions of mandolin sonatas and concertos of the 18th century (from the Paris Bibliotheque Nationale) at Adofe's and Trekel's.
As a former pupil of Mario Maciocchi and Francois Menichetti, he was one of the heirs of the italian/french mandolin school and leaded the plucked instruments committee at the french music amateur society (Confederation Musicale de France).
Jean-Paul Bazin
He was teaching mandolin at the Argenteuil National Music School from 1969 (guitar from 1966) to 1986 (when he was replaced by Florentino Calvo) and had among his pupils Mathieu Sarthe-Maureou (now teacher at the Argenteuil National Music School beside Florentino Calvo), Julien Martineau (now teacher at the Toulouse Music Conservatory), as well as some ancient mandolin players like Didier Le Roux, Eric Depret and Jean-Paul Bazin, now members of the Ensemble Gabriele Leone.
He was one of the pioneers in researching original early music for mandolin, had good contacts with italian researchers like Alessandro Pitrelli and Ugo Orlandi, and published many modern editions of mandolin sonatas and concertos of the 18th century (from the Paris Bibliotheque Nationale) at Adofe's and Trekel's.
As a former pupil of Mario Maciocchi and Francois Menichetti, he was one of the heirs of the italian/french mandolin school and leaded the plucked instruments committee at the french music amateur society (Confederation Musicale de France).
Jean-Paul Bazin