Yvonne Lefébure (29 June 1898,

Ermont Ermont () is a Communes of France, commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. It has around 28,000 inhabitants, which makes Ermont one of the most import ...

– 23 January 1986, Paris) was a French pianist and teacher. Born in Ermont, she studied with

Alfred Cortot Alfred Denis Cortot ( , ; 26 September 187715 June 1962) was a French pianist, conductor, and teacher who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century. A pianist of massive repertory, he was especially valued for his po ...

at the

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, taking a ''premier prix'' in piano and numerous other subjects. She performed with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and the Orchestre des Concerts Colonne and in recital. She performed at the first Prades Festival in 1950. She taught at the

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, Conservatoire de Paris and Conservatoire Européen, and gave masterclasses at her own festival in

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. Among her pupils were

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, Janina Fialkowska,

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Catherine Collard Catherine Collard (11 August 1947 – 10 October 1993) was a French classical pianist. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 14, where she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Germaine Mounier. She was awarded the first prize in piano in ...

, Michaël Levinas,

Françoise Thinat Françoise Thinat (born in 1934) in Gien (Loiret), is a French classical pianist. She presides over the Orléans International Piano Competition, which she founded in 1994 and teaches at the École normale de musique de Paris. Biography First ...

, Jean-Marc Savelli,

Évelyne Crochet Évelyne Crochet (born 1934) is a Franco-American classical pianist. Biography Crochet was born in Paris, where she studied piano with Yvonne Lefébure and Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire de Paris. She also worked with Marcel Samuel-Rousse ...

, István Kassai, Hélène Boschi, Martin Hughes,

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, and

Avi Schönfeld Avi Schönfeld is a Polish pianist and composer. He was born in Lodz, Poland on 15 December 1947. Life Schönfeld gave his first concert in his native Poland at the age of 19 before going to Israel to become a pupil of the Bartók disciple Il ...

. In 1947 she married French musicologist

Fred Goldbeck Fred Goldbeck (13 February 1902 – 3 October 1981 in Paris) was a French musicologist and conductor of Dutch origin. Biography Born in the Netherlands, Fred Goldbeck moved to France in 1924. He met the pianist Yvonne Lefébure and became her co ...

Sources

*Carbou, Yvette, ''La leçon de musique d’Yvonne Lefébure'', 1995 (with discography). *Timbrell, Charles, ''French Pianism: A Historical Perspective'', 2nd ed. (Portland, 1999) * Moritz von Bredow: ''Klang gewordener Geist''. Branka Musulin zum 100. Geburtstag. Eine Hommage. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. 14. August 2017, S. 10.

External links

Yvonne Lefébure teaches the music of Ravel
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