Joseph Morpain
Joseph Morpain (1873 – 12 February 1961) was a French pianist and teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris and École Normale de Musique de Paris, whose prominent students included Clara Haskil and Monique Haas.

Career
He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Émile Decombes, a pupil of Frédéric Chopin.  Reynaldo Hahn was one of his classmates. He was also a student of Gabriel Fauré.

His own pupils at the Conservatoire and the École Normale de Musique included Clara Haskil, Monique Haas, Lucien Wang, Madeleine de Valmalète, Raymond Trouard, Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert, Pierre Maillard-Verger, and Ramon Coll.

He was acting Director of the École Normale de Musique from 1944.

He published "Comment il faut jouer du piano", and "50 Chansons des Charentes et du Poitou" (1924).

Reynaldo Hahn dedicated the first two of his Premières valses (1898) to Morpain.

References

1873 births
1961 deaths
20th-century French male classical pianists
French music educators
Piano pedagogues
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris