Henriette Puig-Roget

Henriette Puig-Roget studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Isidor Philipp, Jean Gallon and Noël Gallon is recorded. Hideki Nagano, Takenori Nemoto and Masakazu Natsuda are recorded as having studied under Henriette Puig-Roget. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Employment is recorded with Conservatoire de Paris, Tokyo University of the Arts and Oratoire du Louvre. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.

• Born — 9 January 1910 • Birthplace — Bastia, Corsica • Died — 24 November 1992 • Place of death — Paris • Education — * Conservatoire de Paris • Occupation — * Classical organist • Music educator • Organizations — * Grand Synagogue of Paris • Conservatoire de Paris • Tokyo University of the Arts • L'Oratoire du Louvre • Paris Opera • Awards — Prix de Rome

Born in Bastia, she began her musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1919. She won 6 first prizes between 1926 and 1930 in the classes of Isidore Philipp, Jean Gallon and Noël Gallon, Maurice Emmanuel and Marcel Dupré: piano, harmony, music history, piano accompaniment, counterpoint, fugue, organ. She was also a student of Charles Tournemire in chamber music. She also received congratulations for her composition Suite sur un thème de l'office de Noël in the 1930 Amis de l'Orgue competition. First Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1933, she was appointed the following year organist of the Oratoire du Louvre and the Grand Synagogue of Paris. She remained there until 1979 and 1952 respectively. As conductor of singing at the Opéra de Paris, she pursued a parallel career as a pianist on the radio from 1935, where she remained until 1975. Henriette Roget, now Mrs. Ramon Puig-Vinyals, taught accompaniment at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1957. In 1979, she left to teach piano, music theory and chamber music at the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. Among her students from this Tokyo period were Kazuoki Fujii (pianist), Takenori Nemoto (French horn player), Hideki Nagano (pianist), Masakazu Natsuda (composer), Misato Mochizuki (composer) and Mami Sakato (organist).