Françoise Landowski-Caillet (3 March 1917 –12 December 2007) was a French pianist and painter.
Biography
Born in
Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the Parisian area, located from its Kilometre zero, centre. It is a Subprefectures in ...
, Landowski-Caillet was the daughter of the sculptor of Polish origin
Paul LandowskiFiche du dictionnaire Delarge
/ref> and by her mother great-granddaughter of the composer Henri Vieuxtemps, the sister of the composer Marcel Landowski, of the painter Nadine Landowski (1908–1943) and of Jean-Maximilien Landowski (1911–1944), who died while fightling for France in World War II. Born in 1917, having spent a long time in Italy in the 1920s when her father directed the Villa Médicis, she was a pupil of Marguerite Long and pursued a career as an international virtuoso pianist after the war and until the 1970s. She then became a piano teacher at the Conservatoire de Saint-Denis while beginning a second career as a painter. She merged her two artistic expressions in the 1980s by creating concert exhibitions where she played works by composers who had inspired paintings exhibited and projected during concerts – notably around Debussy, Ravel and Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( rus, link=no, Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Modest Petrovich Musorgsky , mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj, Ru-Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky version.ogg; – ) was a Russian compo ...
. Her repertoire included an important religious dimension, since she began with the Way of the Cross in St. Peter's Church in Brusc (at Six-Fours-les-Plages, Var) and ends, in the early 2000s, with the Way of the Cross of the Church of Lônes, still in Six-Fours-les-Plages. She died in 2007.
She was the wife of Gérard Caillet, French writer, author of several booklets for Marcel Landowski. She was also the mother of the ethnologist Laurence Caillet-Tchang, a Japan specialist, and Elisabeth Caillet-Durieu, a philosopher.
References
External links
Françoise Landowski-Caillet
on data.bnf.fr
{{DEFAULTSORT:Landowski, Francoise
1917 births
2007 deaths
People from Boulogne-Billancourt
20th-century French women classical pianists
20th-century French painters
21st-century French women classical pianists