Françoise Deslogères (9 May 1929 – 20 September 2020) was a French ondist.

Life and career

Françoise Deslogères was born in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

on 9 May 1929. She studied music (

harmony In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds in order to create new, distinct musical ideas. Theories of harmony seek to describe or explain the effects created by distinct pitches or tones coinciding with one another; harm ...

, piano) with Henri Challan,

Geneviève Joy Geneviève Joy (; 4 October 1919 – 27 November 2009) was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five ye ...

and Jeanne Blancard. She began working on the ondes Martenot in 1957 with inventor

Maurice Martenot Maurice Louis Eugène Martenot (; October 14, 1898 – October 8, 1980) was a French cellist, a radio telegraphy, telegrapher during the first World War, and an inventor. Born in Paris, he is best known for his invention of the ondes Martenot, an ...

. In 1968 she founded a trio for ondes Martenot, piano and percussions, the Trio Deslogères. From 1971, she taught the ondes Martenot in Boulogne-Billancourt and at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. Deslogères died in Boulogne-Billancourt on 20 September 2020, at the age of 91.

Premieres

*''De Voci'' (1958), ''Pièces de chair'' (1967) by Sylvano Bussotti *''Concerto'' (1966) by Raymond Depraz. *''Points de rencontre'' (1977) by Charles Chaynes

References

Sources

Alain Pâris Alain Pâris (born 22 November 1947) is a French conductor and musicologist. Biography Born in Paris, Alain Pâris was trained as a pianist and has a law degree. He studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux, Paul Paray and Georg Solti and won the ...

: ''Dictionnaire des interprètes'' Bouquins/Laffont 1989 p. 320

External links

Portraits d'ondistes
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