Classical music whizz kids, on 28 July 2022 in the church of Saint-Chamassy from 3 to 4.15 pm.

Young audience concert

Patrick Barbier

Patrick is a music historian, specialising in the baroque and romantic periods. He is a professor emeritus at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest, and the author of numerous works (Prix Thiers de l'Académie française for his Journey to Baroque Rome Grasset Publishing 2016)

Patrick Barbier also writes musical shows for school audiences and numerous festivals in France (Nohant Chopin festival, Via Aeterna at Mont Saint-Michel) and abroad.

He produces programmes for France Musique, and participates in many others (France 2, France 3, La 5).

He is the president of the Centro Studi Farinelli, about the famous castrato of which he is a recognised specialist.

THE PROGRAMME

Throughout the history of music, many child prodigies have remained famous, both for their compositions and their first public appearances. This concert will portray the whizz kids of classical music such as Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven or Saint-Saëns. All of them showed exceptional precocity: compositions at 5 or 7 years old, public concerts at 8 or 10.

Thanks to Patrick Barbier's entertaining account and the musical illustrations of the talented pianist Jean-Marc Pont Marchesi, this concert will give a better understanding of how, and in what kind of family context, they were able to acquire mastery of the piano and composition at such an early age, and what journeys or adventures they experienced with their entourage.

THE PLACE