Lily Laskine (31 August 1893 – 4 January 1988) was one of the most prominent

harpist The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual string (music), strings running at an angle to its sound board (music), soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing ...

s of the twentieth century who was born and died in Paris. Born Lily Aimée Laskine to Jewish parents in Paris, she studied at the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or 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 Jean Ja ...

with Alphonse Hasselmans and became a frequent performing partner of several distinguished French

flautist The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

s, including Marcel Moyse and Jean-Pierre Rampal. Laskine also served as professor of harp at the

from 1948 to 1958. She was awarded the

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in 1958. She died in Paris. In 1936 she married Roland Charmy, a violinist and academic of the Conservatoire de Paris.

References

Bibliography and discography

;Books * Marielle Nordmann, ''Lily Laskine'', Éditions Cahiers du Temps, 1999 * * ;Records * ''L'Art de Lily Laskine'', 1996 * ''Concerto pour flûte et harpe'' de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 2002 * ''Japanese Melodies for Flute and Harp'', 1994

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* * Musicians from Paris 1893 births 1988 deaths Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris French classical harpists 20th-century French classical musicians 20th-century French musicians Officers of the Legion of Honour Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite {{String-musician-stub