53 FLORIAN NOACK BIO GB Guy Sacre and these words of his lie at the origin of Florian’s journey. Sacre’s book La Musique de piano became an inexhaustible source of discoveries for the young artist, who plucked from its pages names both famous and less well-known. He sightread and was enthralled by the beauty of a piece by a neglected composer, then listened to and performed Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, equally gripped by the power of their masterpieces. Literature, like music an art of time, accompanied him, inspired him, forged him. As did the training he received from his mentors: the intuitive, mystical teaching of Vassily Lobanov, who in addition to his advice on what to read, urged him to ‘develop your soul’, while with Claudio Martínez Mehner he acquired refinement of touch and honing of detail. Meeting Ferenc Rados transformed his relationship with music. Now he could no longer remain content with a kind of stylistic uniformity, but learnt to understand what the notes want, how they act and interact, how to utter them. From then on, each work became unique, a world in itself, whose individuality he wished to experience and savour. He knew that every one of them, whether by Lyapunov, Clementi or Mozart, can make its impact, as long as it one does it justice. Mozart. It was to the sound of his music that Florian Noack was born in Brussels in 1990, and it was at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel that his career began. After winning international prizes and being invited to play on every continent, he returned to his home base of Belgium, at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège, where he now teaches. A genuine mission for him, like setting down rare, sometimes unrecorded works for La Dolce Volta and thereby enabling them to exist. And with each disc, he reaps his reward: he has added an object to the world.
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