Yvette Grimaud
Yvette Jeanne Grimaud (29 January 1920 – 19 February 2012) was a French pianist, composer and ethnomusicologist. Yvette Grimaud was born in Algeria, she moved to Paris in the 1940s, where she was a student of Olivier Messiaen and gave the first performances of early works for piano by Pierre Boulez. She later gave up her career as a pianist to focus on ethnomusicology, specialising in the traditional music of Georgia.
Yvette Grimaud
- Full name
- Yvette Jeanne Grimaud.
- Born
- 1920. · Algiers.
- Died
- 2012. · Villiers-le-Bel.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- pianist, ethnographer, composer and musicologist.
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Yvette Jeanne Grimaud (29 January 1920 – 19 February 2012) was a French pianist, composer and ethnomusicologist. Yvette Grimaud was born in Algeria, she moved to Paris in the 1940s, where she was a student of Olivier Messiaen and gave the first performances of early works for piano by Pierre Boulez. She later gave up her career as a pianist to focus on ethnomusicology, specialising in the traditional music of Georgia.
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