Paule Carrère-Dencausse (22 December 1891 – 21 October 1967) was a French pianist,

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ist and teacher..

Biography

Dencausse studied music at the

conservatoire de Bordeaux The Conservatoire de Bordeaux is an arts conservatory that offers higher education in music, dance and drama in Bordeaux, France. It is one of the leading schools in France for singers and saxophonists. Founded in 1821, the school is operated by ...

: First Prize for

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, piano in 1906,

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in 1908,

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in 1910 as well as

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and

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in 1912.Jean et Bernard Guérin, ''Des hommes et des activités - autour d'un demi-siècle'', Éditions B.E.B., 1957, . She won the Musica International Piano Competition in 1912. She later studied

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with Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin who will dedicate his

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to her and won a silver medal in the music composition competition (''Romance sans paroles''). First accompanying a singing class at the Bordeaux Conservatory, she was appointed professor of solfeggio in 1920 and professor of piano in 1931, a position she held until 1963. She was also a professor at the

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Academy whose regional center she created in Bordeaux. She married violinist

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in 1925 and therefore performed under the name of Paule Carrère-Dencausse. She was then, with Eugène Feillou (

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) and Henri Barouk (

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), also a member of the Georges Carrère Quartet. Great names like

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, Fauré, Planté, Roger-Ducasse, Roussel and Saint-Saëns appreciated her talent.

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dedicated his first work for piano to her. Her qualities as an accompanist were also recognized: she was the reference accompanist for

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and accompanied.

Charles Panzéra Charles uguste LouisPanzéra (February 16, 1896 in Geneva – June 6, 1976 in Paris) was a Swiss operatic and concert baritone.''Piano ma non solo'', Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Anagramme Ed., 2012, Overview Panzéra's studies at the Paris Conser ...

in 1931 in Bordeaux.''

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'
11 December 1931
She trained a very large number of students, many of whom will become

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s, composers or teachers.

Family

She is the mother-in-law of the historian

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (; born Hélène Zourabichvili; 6 July 1929) is a French political historian of Georgians in France, Georgian origin, specializing in History of Russia, Russian history. Since 1999, she has served as the Perpetual Sec ...

and the grandmother of the writer and director

Emmanuel Carrère Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insuranc ...

, the lawyer Nathalie Carrère and the doctor and journalist Marina Carrère d'Encausse.

Sources

* A. Edmond Cardoze, ''Musique et musiciens en Aquitaine'', Aubéron, 1992

References

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