Marie-Brigitte Gauthier-Chaufour

Marie-Brigitte Gauthier-Chaufour ( born Marie-Brigitte Chaufour , born August 31, 1928 in Paris , † July 15, 2001 ) was a French composer.

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Life

Marie-Brigitte Chaufour had violin lessons with Simone Filon from the age of four and studied solfège with André Asselin at the Paris Conservatory from the age of fourteen . In 1946 she attended the violin class of René Benedetti and also studied harmony with Henri Challan and counterpoint with Noël Gallon . In 1958 she won the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Une mort de Don Quichotte based on a text by Randal Lemoine .

After completing her training at the conservatory, she attended Suzanne Chaisemartin's organ class at the École Normale de Musique de Paris , where she graduated as an organist in 1975. As the mother of four children, she did not pursue a professional musical career, but she composed a number of notable works.

In 1956 her Concerts for Cello and Orchestra by the cellist Bernard Michelin under the direction of Jacques Michon premiered in the Salle Pleyel as part of the Concerts Pasdeloup . She also composed two masses (1964 and 1969), a wind quartet, a piece for double bass for the exams at the Conservatory and a number of songs. For several years she was chair of the jury at the Concours International Leopold Bellan .