Maurice Cole (pianist) an avoidance of all posturing and pretentiousness (would that the same could be said for all other Bach players!)" Review of Cole's recording of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier book I in Gramophone Magazine, November 1962. Maurice Cole (pianist) Maurice Cole (1902–1990), was an English pianist, teacher and adjudicator who studied privately and at the Guildhall School of Music with Arthur De Greef. Maurice Cole was born in London, England. He was the first pianist to broadcast a recital on the BBC and went on to perform, amongst many other compositions, both books of Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" on the BBC Third Programme.
Maurice Fatio opened an office there In Palm Beach, he began designing harmonious Mediterranean-style houses and eventually branched out into everything from Georgian to contemporary. In 1929, he married Eleanor Chase, a prominent Palm Beach society girl and novelist, in New York City. His houses were so well known during his lifetime that composer-lyricist Cole Porter was inspired to write in the late 1930s: "I want to live on Maurice Fatio's patio…". Fatio had two children with Eleanor, Alexandra (1932-2015) and Maurice Pierre "Petey"(1930-1961). Maurice Fatio died young in his forties of lung cancer. His wife, Eleanor (1901–1944), died the next year.