Odette Gartenlaub
Appearance
Odette Gartenlaub (13 March 1922 – 20 September 2014)[1] was a French pianist, music teacher and composer.
Biography
Odette Gartenlaub studied music at the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen, Henri Busser, Noël Gallon and Darius Milhaud,[2] and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1948.[3] She became well known as a soloist, performing with orchestras internationally. In 1959 she took a position as a professor at the Paris Conservatory.[4]
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 for viola solo (1984)
- Pour le Cor
- Les Coin des Enfants
- Antique
- Grave et Tocatta
- Sept Petit Études
References
- ^ a b "ODETTE GARTENLAUB". MUSICA ET MEMORIA. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ^ "Odette Gartenlaub", in Sax, Mule & Co, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, H & D, 2004, p. 125-126. ISBN 2 914 266 03 0
- ^ Pamela Youngdahl Dees (1990). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
- ^ "Works with Horn by Female Composers". Retrieved 11 January 2012.
Categories:
- 1922 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- French classical composers
- French female classical composers
- Female classical composers
- Conservatoire de Paris alumni
- Academics of the Conservatoire de Paris
- Prix de Rome for composition
- 20th-century French women musicians
- 20th-century French composers
- Women music educators
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres