Céliny Chailley-Richez

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Céliny Chailley-Richez (born March 15, 1884 in Lille , † September 9, 1973 ) was a French pianist and music teacher.

Chailley-Richez studied piano at the Conservatory of her hometown from 1894 and switched to the Conservatoire de Paris the following year , where she was a student of Raoul Pugno . In 1898 she received the first prize in the piano category. In 1908 she met the violinist Marcel Chailley , whom she married in the same year. Together they performed with the Orchester Pasdeloup , the Orchester Colonne and the Orchester Lamoureux as well as chamber musicians and founded their own quartet.

In their residence in Seignelay, the Chailleys have been giving summer courses since 1914, in which at times students from almost twenty nations participated, including Ivry Gitlis , Lola Bobesco and Denise Soriano . Around 1925, Marcel Chailly withdrew from concert activities and became a teacher at the Ecole Normale de Musique , while his wife intensified her collaboration with George Enescu , with whom her husband had been friends for a long time. From April 1932 she played all of Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano in private soirees with Enescu .

After her husband's death in 1936, Chailley-Richez became even closer to Enescu, becoming friends with Maria Cantacuzino , who married in 1937. In September 1939 she began a concert tour with Enescu, which had to be canceled due to an illness of Enescu. Enescu went to Romania with his wife, while Chailley-Richez returned to Paris and taught there for a year at the Conservatory. She also gave concerts and, with the support of Denyse Favareille , a wealthy landowner, founded an all- women quintet that gave nine concerts between 1941 and 1943.

When Enescu came to Paris after the Second World War, they both resumed their concert activities, including a recording of Enescu's Third Sonata "dans le caractère populaire roumain" in 1949, which was awarded a prize by the Académie du disque Charles Cros . In the studios of Decca Records in 1953, under Enescu's direction, a recording of all works for keyboard instruments and orchestra, plus the two Trplicon concerts BWV 1044 and 1057 and the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto by Johann Sebastian Bach was made . The solo parts played alongside Chailley-Richez Jean-Jacques Painchaud , Françoise Le Gonidec and Yvette Grimaud , as well as the flautists Jean-Pierre Rampal and Gaston Crunelle and the violinist Christian Ferras .

In the early 1960s, Chailley-Richez assisted Romeo Draghici in setting up the Enescu Museum in Bucharest, to which she gave all of her Enescu-related records. In 1971 she became a member of the Les Amis d'Enesco Foundation in Paris. There were several other musicians in her family: her maternal uncle was the conductor Félix Galle , whose daughter Yvonne Gall became known as an opera singer. Her own son Jacques Chailley was a musicologist and composer, her daughter Marie-Thérèse Chailley-Guiard a singer and music teacher.

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SURNAME Chailley-Richez, Celine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1973