Marie-Thérèse Chailley

Marie-Thérèse Chailley (born May 2, 1921 ; † December 7, 2001 in Paris ) was a French violist and music teacher.

Chailley came from a family of musicians. Her father was the violinist Marcel Chailley , her mother the pianist Céliny Chailley-Richez . Her brother Jacques Chailley was known as a music historian and scholar, her cousin Jeanne Chailley-Bert as a harpsichordist. At the age of fourteen she began to study viola with Maurice Vieux at the Paris Conservatory and received a First Prize in her first year. After winning first prize at the Geneva International Competition in 1948, she began a career as a soloist.

She has performed with well-known orchestras ( Concerts Lamoureux , Concerts Colonne , Orchester Pasdeloup and others) and has played recordings of the sonatas for viola and piano by Jacques Chailley and Jacques Castérède , the C major concerto for viola, organ and orchestra by Michael Haydn , (with Marie-Claire Alain and the Orchester de chambre Jean-François Paillard ) and the Concerto for Viola and Orchestra by Jean-Baptiste Bréval . At one of her last concerts, the 885th concert of the Société Nationale de Musique in 1993, she played Robert Casadesus ' Sonata for viola and piano with Gaby Casadesus at the piano.

As a teacher, Chailley taught for many years at the Conservatoire de Boulogne and wrote several music pedagogical works: Quarante exercices rationnels pour l'alto (1966), Exercices divertissants et pièces brèves pour alto, degré élémentaire (1974), Vingt études progressives en alt doubles pour l'alto avec des conseils pour les travailler (1980), and Techniques de l'alto, les exercices au service de l'expression musicale (two volumes, 1991).

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