Marie-Françoise Bucquet

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Marie-Françoise Bucquet
Background information
Born	28 October 1937 Montivilliers, France
Died	15 August 2018
Genres	classical
Instrument(s)	piano

Marie-Françoise Bucquet (28 October 1937 – 15 August 2018) was a French pianist.^[1]

Biography

Born in Montivilliers, Marie-Françoise Bucquet began her studies at the Vienna Music Academy and continued this tradition by further studies with Central European musicians: the eminent pianist Wilhelm Kempff and later another eminent pianist, Alfred Brendel. The influence of Edouard Steuermann and Max Deutsch, who were both pupils of Schoenberg, and Pierre Boulez made her also a specialist in 20th-century music. Composers such as Betsy Jolas, Iannis Xenakis and Sylvano Bussotti wrote works especially for her.

Repeated concert tours which Bucquet made as a soloist and with orchestra ranged over much of the world. For the Philips label she recorded works by, among others, Bizet, Bartók, Stockhausen and Stravinsky. In 1976 she was awarded an Edison for one of her Schoenberg recordings. She gave numerous master classes in Italy, Spain, the United States, Japan, and (regularly from 1988) the Netherlands, the last-named being The International Holland Music Sessions.

From 1986 till her death, Bucquet was professor of piano at the

. This last release was for, again, Lyrinx-Harmonia Mundi.

Along with her husband, Bucquet organised each year an Atelier Musical in Paris, this event having been held in collaboration with the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, and having involved special lessons in interpretation and performance. In addition, she served as jury member at many international piano competitions, among them the International Piano Competition in Dublin. She died in August 2018.

References

External links

• The International Holland Music Sessions 2005: Faculty Members and Accompanists