Yvonne Lefébure

Yvonne Lefébure ( born June 29, 1898 in Ermont, Département Val -d'Oise, † January 23, 1986 in Paris) was a French pianist.

Life and work

Lefébure had from 1906 piano lessons with Marguerite Long, then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice Emmanuel and Charles -Marie Widor and took private lessons with Alfred Cortot. She joined soon on the legendary orchestras of Charles Édouard Colonne and Lamoureux and later worked with conductors such as Adrian Boult, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Pablo Casals, at the festivals of Prades and Perpignan she regularly took part in the 1950s and 1960s.

She taught piano at the École Normale de Musique and until 1969 at the Conservatoire de Paris, after she gave up to her death still private lessons.

Students (selection)

• Hélène Boschi (1917-1990)
• Imogen Cooper ( b. 1949 )
• Samson François (1924-1970)
• Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950)
• Peter Ronnefeld (1935-1965)
• Jean -Marc Savelli ( b. 1955 )
• Arturo Sudbrack Jamardo (* 1954)
• Françoise Thinat ( b. 1934 )