Henriette Puig-Roget

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Henriette Puig-Roget (born January 9, 1910 in Bastia , Corsica , † November 24, 1992 in Paris ) was a French organist, pianist and composer.

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The daughter of General Henri Roget attended the Paris Conservatory from 1919 , where she was a student of Sophie Chéné , Isidore Philipp , Abel Estyle , Jean and Noël Gallon , Maurice Emmanuel and Marcel Dupré . She won six first prizes (including piano and organ) and the Premier Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1933 .

In the following year Piug-Roget was organist at the Oratoire de Louvre (until 1979) and the Great Synagogue of Paris (until 1951). From 1935 to 1975 she also worked as a pianist on the radio. From 1957 to 1979 she taught piano accompaniment at the Conservatoire de Paris, then at the University of Tokyo . Her students included Gilbert Amy , Alain Louvier , Daniel Roth , Yasuko Tasumi , Maki Namekawa and Mami Sakato .

She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Orchester National de'ORTF , the Orchester Colonne and the Orchester de la Société de Conservatoire and has recorded works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier , Michel-Richard Delalande , Nicolas Bernier , Jean-Baptiste Lully and Camille Saint-Saëns and by contemporary composers such as Alejandro García Caturla and Amadeo Roldán .

Puig-Roget created orchestral works, chamber music , church music and compositions for organ, including Cortège funèbre , Deploracion de la semana santa , Toccata severa and triathlon .

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Individual evidence

  1. Entry on the website of Musimem (Prix de Rome; 1930–1939)