Monique de La Bruchollerie (20 April 191515 December 1972) was a French classical concert

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Career

La Bruchollerie was born in

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. She came from a family of musicians, both

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being among her ancestors. At the age of 7 she entered the class of

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(a friend of her parents) at the Paris Conservatoire, which she left in 1928 with a first prize. A concert she gave in 1932 under the baton of

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brought her breakthrough as a pianist. Between 1936 and 1938 she went on to take part in more piano competitions, above all in the

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of 1937 in Warsaw and the 1939 Brussels Competition. After the Second World War she developed an international career, above all in the USA and in Poland, and she worked with conductors such as

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. In 1952, La Bruchollerie performed for the

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in Boston.''Boston Herald'', 30-Jan-1952, Rudolph Elie, "Monique de la Bruchollerie" Her concert career ended quite suddenly in December 1966 through a car accident in Romania, as a result of which she suffered a fracture of the skull, lateral paralysis and an irreversible injury to her right hand. Thenceforth she devoted herself to teaching. Among her pupils were

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, and

Cyprien Katsaris Cyprien Katsaris ( el, Κυπριανός Κατσαρής; born 5 May 1951) is a French- Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer. Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil o ...

. She made numerous recordings, notably for

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and for American

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labels. She died in 1972, aged 57.

References

External links and sources

* Review of Concert by Monique de La Bruchollerie, given 3 May 1952 in Schillersaal, Tübingen, Germany, in O. Weinreich and G. Wille (Eds), ''Zur Musikwissenschaft 1909-1960: Konzertkritiken 1923-1933 und 1945-1952'' (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1975), , , p. 571.
Naxos Biography of Monique de La Bruchollerie

Fryderyk Chopin Institute Biography of Monique de La Bruchollerie

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* ttp://www.doremi.com/delabrucholleri.html Doremi website listing available recordings of Monique de La Bruchollerie, with photographs
Classics Online biography of Monique de La Bruchollerie
20th-century French women classical pianists 1915 births 1972 deaths Musicians from Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni {{France-musician-stub