Andrée Louise Vaurabourg-Honegger (8 September 1894 − 18 July 1980) was a French pianist and teacher. She was the wife of Swiss-French composer

Arthur Honegger Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably ''Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 t ...

(1892–1955), whom she met at the

Paris Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...

in 1916. Honegger married her in 1926 on the condition that they live in separate apartments because he required solitude for composing. They lived apart for the duration of their marriage, with two exceptions. In September 1934, while traveling in Spain, Honegger's car ran into a tree after a tire burst. He only broke an ankle, but Vaurabourg, in the front passenger seat, broke both knees and was unable to walk for almost a year. She never fully recovered from the accident. Honegger lived with and cared for her during her recuperation. They also lived together during the last year of Honegger's life, when he could no longer live alone. They had one daughter, Pascale, born in 1932. She studied piano at the

, receiving first prize in counterpoint. She often performed her husband's piano works. Vaurabourg's students of counterpoint included

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, and

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. File:Young Woman with a Pipe (Andrée Vaurabourg).jpg, Young Woman with a Pipe (Andrée Vaurabourg), 1920 painting by

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and Vaurabourg wearing costumes from Honegger's opera ''Judith'' at Mézières, Switzerland, in 1925 File:Tombe Arthur Honegger & Andrée Vaurabourg, Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Paris.jpg, Tomb of Arthur Honegger & Andrée Vaurabourg, Cimetière Saint-Vincent, Paris

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External links

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1894 births 1980 deaths 20th-century French women classical pianists Musicians from Toulouse {{pianist-stub