Jacques Février

He studied with Édouard Risler and Marguerite Long at the Conservatoire de Paris, taking a premier prix in 1921.

[1] Although Paul Wittgenstein premiered Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, Février was expressly chosen by the composer to be the first French pianist to perform the work.

When Wittgenstein's exclusive right to play the piece ended in 1937, Février performed it, first in Paris, then secondly in Boston with conductor Sergei Koussevitsky.

He also taught at the Conservatoire de Paris, where his students included Gabriel Tacchino, Alain Planès, and Valerie Tryon.

[3] He died in Épinal in September 1979,[4] a few weeks after being struck by a motorcyclist while walking in the countryside.