Marcelle de Lacour

Marcelle de Lacour ( born Marcelle Schaeffer, born November 6, 1896 in Besançon, † 24 March 1997) was a French harpsichordist.

Marcelle de Lacour had piano as a child, later harp lessons. In the 1920s, she came with her husband Robert de Lacour, a lawyer and music lover, to Paris, where she studied harpsichord with Wanda Landowska.

Thereafter, she appeared as harpsichord soloist throughout Europe. Her repertoire included, inter alia, Works by Jean -Baptiste Loeillet de Gant, Joseph Bodin de Bois Mortier, Michel Richard de Lalande, Jean -Baptiste Lully, Marc- Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, Jean -Philippe Rameau, Henry Purcell, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, Dietrich Buxtehude, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann. In addition, they also played works by contemporary composers such as Bohuslav Martinu, Florent Schmitt, Alexandre Tansman and Francis Poulenc composed the harpsichord pieces for them.

After the Second World War de Lacour was a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris and the Orchestre National de France and as a chamber musician with the oboist Pierre Pierlot, the flutist Jean -Pierre Rampal and the Trio Pasquier.

In 1955 she founded a harpsichord class at the Paris Conservatory, where she taught until 1967. 2000, the Fondation Marcelle et Robert de Lacour was founded to promote the music and the dance.

• Harpsichordist
• Person (Besançon)
• Frenchman
• Born 1896
• Died in 1997
• Woman