Odette Gartenlaub
Odette Gartenlaub (13 March 1922 – 20 September 2014)[1] was a French pianist, music teacher and composer.
Biography
Odette Gartenlaub studied music at the
Grand Prix de Rome in 1948.[3] She became well known as a soloist, performing with orchestras internationally. The daughter of Jewish parents, she was forced to abandon her studies at the Paris Conservatoire in September 1941 when the Conservatoire enforced statutes banning the attendance of Jews at the institution in the era of Nazi-occupied Paris.[4] In 1959 she took a position as a professor at the Paris Conservatory.[5]
On September 20, 2014, she died at Hôpital Cochin in Paris, at the age of 92.[1]
Works
Gartenlaub's compositions include works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and solo instruments. Selected works include:
- Étude concertante (1984) for viola solo
- Pour le Cor (1968) for horn and piano[6]
- Les Coin des Enfants (1971) for piano[7]
- Antique
- Grave et Toccata (1968) for piano[7]
- Sept Petit Études[7]
- Trois Caracteres (1974) for trombone and piano or orchestra; Paris Conservatory contest piece in 1974 and 1981[8]
References
- ^ a b "ODETTE GARTENLAUB". MUSICA ET MEMORIA. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ISBN 2 914 266 03 0
- ^ Pamela Youngdahl Dees (1990). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
- ISBN 9780802807625.
- ^ "Works with Horn by Female Composers". Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ProQuest 1227018– via ProQuest.
- ^ a b c "Oeuvres pour piano". Odette Gartenlaub: Musicienne, Compositrice, Pianiste, Pédagogue. 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ProQuest 2582224718– via ProQuest.
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