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Annie d'Arco
French pianist (1920–1998)
Annie d'Arco | |
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| Born | (1920-10-28)October 28, 1920 Marseille, France |
| Died | March 5, 1998(1998-03-05) (aged 77) |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation | Piano |
Musical artist
Annie d'Arco (28 October 1920 – 5 March 1998) was a 20th-century French classical pianist.
Biography
[edit]Born in Marseille, d'Arco studied the piano with Marguerite Long and won the Geneva competition in 1946. She gave her first concert with the Orchestre Lamoureux, under the direction of Eugène Bigot.
She performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, notably with Henryk Szeryng, André Navarra, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jean-Éric Thirault[1] and Pierre Pierlot. She taught the piano at the École normale de musique de Paris for many years, and had many students with distinguished careers, including Christophe Larrieu, Catherine Joly and Marylin Frascone. She was married to Gilbert Coursier, a French horn player.
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List of women classical pianists
Country-based list of women classical pianists
The following is a list of notable women classical pianists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of classical music.
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Albania
[edit]- Edlira Dedja (fl. 1990s), pianist, art critic and musikdrama promotor
Argentina
[edit]Armenia
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Rebecca Chambers (born 1975) concert pianist, teacher, Director of Kidko Performing Arts
- Vera Bradford (1904–2004), pianist and teacher
- Tamara-Anna Cislowska, performing pianist and radio host
- Lucinda Collins (fl. 1980s), pianist, educator, chamber musician
- Anna Goldsworthy (born 1974), writer, pianist and teacher
- Sonya Hanke (1933–1993), pianist and educator
- Miriam Hyde (1913–2005), composer, pianist, educator and poet
- Maureen Jones (born 1927)
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Marguerite Long - biography
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Marguerite Long, a French pianist, was born on 13 November 1874 in Nîmes, and died on 13 February 1966 in Paris. She began to learn piano with her sister, and soon after entered the Nîmes Conservatory. In 1886, the twelve-year-old was heard by Teodor Dubois, a professor at the Paris Conservatory, and it was him who sent her to the Parisian academy to study piano under Alexis-Henri Fissot. In 1891 she graduated with a premier prix, and continued her education in private classes under Antoine Marmontel. She made her debut in 1893 at the Pleyel-Wolff in Paris. Her repertoire included works by classical and Romantic composers, but she was particularly devoted to performing French contemporary music by Fauré, Debussy, Satie, de Séverac, Roger-Ducasse, Ravel, Milhaud, or Poulenc. She was the first to perform some of the works by Debussy, Fauré and Ravel. In 1919 she played Ravel's suite Le tom