Geneviève Joy
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| Born | 4 October 1919 |
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| Instruments | piano |
Geneviève Joy (4 October 1919 — 27 November 2009)[1][2] was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five years, until 1990. The composer Henri Dutilleux, whom she married in 1946, dedicated his Piano Sonata to her, which she recorded for Erato Records in 1988.
A native of the small commune of Bernaville in the Somme department in Northern France region of Picardy,[3] She was the daughter of an Irish woman and a French father who served with the British Army during World War I.[4] Geneviève Joy was a piano prodigy who was accepted to the world-renowned Conservatoire de Paris in 1932 at the age of 12.
She died in her sleep at a Paris hospital eight weeks after her 90th birthday[1] from cancer, and was subsequently buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.[5]
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External links
- 1955 recording on YouTube of Gabriel Fauré's Dolly Suite, together with Jacqueline Robin.
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- Genevieve Joy - Daily Telegraph obituary
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