THE WORKSHOP OF THE PIANIST, CREATING DOM CLEMENT JACOB
Director ARBUS PIERRE
Countries France
Duration 72 min
Synopsis
In 1990, Bernard Arbus, pianist, musicologist and the moviemaker's brother, discovered at the Monastery of En Calcat, in the Tarn (France), the piano unpublished works, from the composer, Dom Clement Jacob. Born in 1906, of Jewish origin, Maxime Jacob was first a young piano accompanist. He met in the 20s, artists from the parisian avant-guard : Ravel, Debussy, Cocteau, Satie, Milhaud... Converted, he took the cloth in 1927. Bruised by the deportation and extermination of his mother and sister, and the disappearance of his brother, he always kept serenity of a mischievous character, and left a large number of bright partitions. It's here, in this workshop of discovery and creation of unheard, that pianist and moviemaker invite us, during a musical and human trip, in which other bonds are revealed and reinvented, between the pianist and his brother who films him, echoing to the so particular destiny of this composer.
In 1990, Bernard Arbus, pianist, musicologist and the moviemaker's brother, discovered at the Monastery of En Calcat, in the Tarn (France), the piano unpublished works, from the composer, Dom Clement Jacob. Born in 1906, of Jewish origin, Maxime Jacob was first a young piano accompanist. He met in the 20s, artists from the parisian avant-guard : Ravel, Debussy, Cocteau, Satie, Milhaud... Converted, he took the cloth in 1927. Bruised by the deportation and extermination of his mother and sister, and the disappearance of his brother, he always kept serenity of a mischievous character, and left a large number of bright partitions. It's here, in this workshop of discovery and creation of unheard, that pianist and moviemaker invite us, during a musical and human trip, in which other bonds are revealed and reinvented, between the pianist and his brother who films him, echoing to the so particular destiny of this composer.