He admits with a mischievous smile:
“I am a pure product of “house music”.
That’s how I met Jean-Sébastien Bach and the cello…”
Let the purists rest assured: the
“house music”
of which the classical cellist Henri Demarquette speaks has nothing to do with funk or soul!
It must be understood in the literal sense: that of “domestic music”.
“With a violinist mother, there were very often musicians in the house.
One day, one of her friends came to our house to try her cello.
She played the first bars of the prelude to
Bach's
First Suite
.
At 10 years old, my world stopped.
I already practiced the cello a bit like that, between two piano parts.
But there, while I was standing ten centimeters from the sound source, I felt such an emotional shock that it became obvious to me.”
Intuitive approach
The friend in question is called Maguy Hauchecorne.
She will become his first teacher.
Henri remembers a full teacher…
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