Françoise Cotron-Henry

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Françoise Cotron-Henry ( Fanou Cotron , born July 7, 1936 in Chamalières , † September 16, 1975 ) was a French pianist and composer.

Cotron-Henry had his first piano lessons at the Clermont-Ferrand Conservatory with Marguerite Chattenet . In 1945, at the age of eight, she performed Arthur Honegger's Concertino for piano and orchestra under the direction of the composer at the City Opera . A few months later she was invited by the Association des Concerts Pasdeloup to perform a piano concerto by Mozart.

She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and completed her pianistic training with Magda Tagliaferro . In 1959 she won a Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Dans les jardins d'Armide . In the same year, the Orchester Pasdeloup , conducted by André Girard, performed her Lamentations de Jérémie for solos, choir and orchestra in the Salle Playel , which she had composed for the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956.

In another concert referendum by the Orchester Pasdeloup, Cotron-Henry won the audience award with the suite concertante sur un argument choréographique . The work was performed in the same year at the Théâtre national de Chaillot under the direction of Pol Mule and the following year at the Théâtre de Vichy under Louis de Froment , again with the composer at the piano. Health problems forced Cotron-Henry to withdraw from the music business in the following years.

Works

  • Lamentations de Jérémie for solos, choir and orchestra
  • Dans les jardins d'Armide , cantata, 1959
  • Suite concertante sur un argument choréographique , 1959
  • Sonata for violin and piano
  • Toccata for piano
  • Suite pour un quart d'heure de sommeil for two pianos
  • Pic et Pic et Colegram for speakers and six instruments
  • Nous sommes , based on a poem by Paul Éluard for contralto and piano
  • L'Innocent , ballet for orchestra