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Françoise Marie Blanche Renet (
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
May 20, 1924 Paris -
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March 23, 1995) was a French
organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...
. She studied with
Marcel Dupré Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré (; 3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Early life and education Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré ...
(organ),
Maurice Duruflé Maurice Gustave Duruflé (; 11 January 1902 – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, musicologist, and teacher. Life and career Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure in 1902. He attended Rouen Cathedral Choir School from 1912 to 1918, ...
(improvisation), and
Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...
(harmony). For 30 years she was associated with the great Cavaillé-Coll at
Saint-Sulpice (Paris) The Church of Saint-Sulpice () is a Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of Place Saint-Sulpice, in the 6th arrondissement. Only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and Saint-Eustache, it is the third largest church in the city. I ...
: in 1955, she was named by Dupré Assistant Organist, maintaining the same position also with Dupré's successor
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald Jean-Jacques Charles Grunenwald, also known by his pseudonym Jean Dalve (2 February 1911 – 19 December 1982), was a French organist, composer, architect, and pedagogue. Life and work Grunenwald was born in 1911 in Cran-Gevrier (now part of A ...
. She was also Interim Organist during the Dupré/Grunenwald and Grunenwald/ Roth interregna (1971-1973 and 1982–1985, respectively). From 1972 to 1990, Renet taught the organ class at the Marcel Dupré Conservatory in
Meudon Meudon () is a French Communes of France, commune located in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, on the left bank of the Seine. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of P ...
.


Discography

* Orgue Cavaillé-Coll de Saint-Sulpice, Paris (œuvres de Dupré et Grunenwald) * Orgue particulier de Marcel Dupré, Meudon (œuvres de Titelouze et Dupré) * Orgue Cavaillé-Coll de Saint-Sernin,
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(''Chemin de la Croix'' et ''Choral et Fugue'' de Dupré)


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Renet, Francoise French classical organists 1924 births 1995 deaths Musicians from Paris French women organists 20th-century French classical musicians 20th-century French musicians 20th-century French women musicians 20th-century French organists