Geneviève Joy Explained

Geneviève Joy
Birth Date:1919 10, df=yes
Instrument:piano

Geneviève Joy (in French ʒənvjɛv ʒwa/; 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[3] 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,[4] she was the daughter of Lina Breton from Bernaville and her Irish husband Charles Joy who served with the British Army during World War I.[5] Geneviève Joy was a piano child prodigy who was accepted to the world-renowned Conservatoire de Paris in 1932 at the age of 12.

In 1982, she served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.[6]

She died in her sleep at a Paris hospital eight weeks after her 90th birthday.

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Notes and References

  1. La pianiste française Geneviève Joy décède à l'âge de 90 ans . Agence France-Presse . Agence France-Presse . 28 November 2009 . . French . 2009-11-28 .
  2. News: Mort de la pianiste Geneviève Joy . Agence France-Presse . Agence France-Presse . 28 November 2009 . . French . 2009-11-28 .
  3. [Jean-Pierre Thiollet]
  4. Web site: Les éphémérides / 4 October 1936 . . French . 2009-11-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607191414/http://www.radiofrance.fr/espace-decouverte/les-ephemerides/date/100408/page/7/ . 7 June 2011 . dmy .
  5. News: Geneviève Joy/ 15 December 2009. Daily Telegraph. 2009-12-15 . London . 15 December 2009.
  6. http://www.concursodepianodesantander.com/C_Concursos_Premiados.aspx Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition “Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”