Madeleine Malraux
Madeleine Malraux , née Lioux (born April 7, 1914 in Toulouse , † January 10, 2014 ) was a French pianist and music teacher .
Life
Malraux attended the Conservatory of Toulouse and came to Paris at the age of fourteen, where she was a student of Marguerite Long at the Paris Conservatory . The Second World War interrupted her musical career; she was active in the Resistance and in 1943 married the resistance fighter Roland Malraux, a half-brother of André Malraux '. After the death of her husband, who was killed on a Resistance mission, she married André Malraux in 1948. After Malraux separated from her in 1966, she resumed her musical career in New York. She gave u. a. Concerts at Carnegie Hall , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Paris Opera. In 1976 she appeared in Tokyo on the occasion of a memorial service for André Malraux, as well as for the opening of an André Malraux exhibition in Onomichi in 2001. Even at the age of 90 she was still active as a pianist; at the end of 2007 she accompanied a reading by François Marthouret with piano pieces by Erik Satie .
Malraux's repertoire included works by Bach , Brahms and Mozart as well as compositions by Scriabin and Rachmaninoff , Messiaen and Satie. George Balanchine composed a waltz for her ( Valse lente ).
literature
- Aude Terray: Madame Malraux . Grasset, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-246-80108-5 .
Web links
- Madeleine Malraux: adieu à une grande dame. Obituary in Le Figaro on January 14, 2014 (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Madeleine Malraux, l'épouse silencieuse, est décédée. Announcement on la-croix.com of January 15, 2014 (French, accessed February 26, 2015).
- ↑ 88 notes pour piano solo , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Neva Editions, 2015, p. 61. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malraux, Madeleine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lioux, Madeleine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2014 |