Yvonne Loriod

Yvonne Loriod ( born January 20, 1924 in Houilles in Paris, † 17 May, 2010 Saint- Denis ) was a French pianist.

Life

At the age of 14 years, Yvonne Loriod dominated by the Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach, all 27 piano concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the 32 sonatas for piano by Ludwig van Beethoven and the complete works of Chopin an extensive repertoire.

She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen were among their teachers. Here she expanded her repertoire to include works of the Impressionists such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Loriod turned consistently contemporary pieces, as Arnold Schoenberg, André Jolivet, Pierre Boulez and others.

At 25, she became in 1949 a professor at the Paris Conservatoire. She was a soloist at the French premieres of the first and second piano concerto by Béla Bartók. She has toured in many cities in Europe, North Africa and North and South America. In 1958 she became a professor of piano at the University of Music Karlsruhe. 1967 to 1989 she taught at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition, she was also active at the Darmstadt Summer Courses.

1961 Yvonne Loriod was the second wife of Olivier Messiaen. She was the most important and often the first interpreter of Messiaen's works for or with piano and also managed his musical heritage. Her sister Jeanne Loriod (1928-2001) was also closely associated than Ondes Martenot - virtuoso with the work of Messiaen.

Yvonne Loriod died 2010 in Saint- Denis.