Odile Bailleux

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Odile Bailleux (born December 30, 1939 in Trappes ) is a French harpsichordist and organist .

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Bailleux studied at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Versailles and at the École César-Franck with Jean Fellot and Édouard Souberbielle . After taking part in the International Organ Academy in Saint-Maximin in 1964 and graduating in 1965, she went to Frankfurt am Main in 1969 to work with the organist Helmut Walcha .

After Bailleux had been Antoine Reboulot's deputy since 1966 , she was the organist of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés from 1973 alongside André Isoir . Since 1990 she has also been the organist of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux .

As a harpsichordist, she had been a member of La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy (with which several recordings were made) since 1977 . In 1985 she published the book La musique pour clavier au nord de l'Europe around 1600 . In her own opinion, she is influenced in her playing by Walcha, Gustav Leonhardt , Scott Ross and Michel Chapuis . But she has also worked with the jazz and improvisation musicians of the Armonicord ensemble around Jouk Minor .

Since 1980 Bailleux has taught organ at the Conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine .

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  1. Jean Fellot. musimem.com, accessed August 18, 2019 (French).
  2. The new edition of this recording was awarded a Diapason d'or in 2009. See discussion by Frédéric Muñoz, 2008