Geneviève Joy (; 4 October 1919 – 27 November 2009) was a French classical and

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pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership with

Jacqueline Robin Jacqueline Robin (; 11 December 1917 in Saint-Astier, Dordogne – 3 February 2007 in Taverny) was a French pianist. Born Jacqueline Pangnier, she also performed as Jacqueline Bonneau. She entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of ten, and o ...

which lasted for forty-five years, until 1990. The composer

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...

, whom she married in 1946, dedicated his ''

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'' to her, which she recorded for

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in 1988. A native of the small

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of Bernaville in the Somme department in Northern

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region of Picardy, She was the daughter of Lina Breton from Bernaville and her Irish husband Charles Joy who served with the

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during World War I. Geneviève Joy was a piano child prodigy who was accepted to the world-renowned

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in 1932 at the age of 12. In 1982, she served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition. She died in her sleep at a

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hospital eight weeks after her 90th birthday from cancer, and was subsequently buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. Her husband, Henri, was buried in the same grave in 2013.

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* of Gabriel Fauré's Dolly Suite, together with

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Genevieve Joy
– Daily Telegraph obituary 1919 births 2009 deaths People from Somme (department) 20th-century French women classical pianists Classical piano duos Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academics of the École Normale de Musique de Paris Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery Women music educators Erato Records artists {{classical-pianist-stub