Geneviève Joy

Geneviève Joy (French: [ʒən.vjɛv ʒwa]; 4 October 1919 – 27 November 2009)[1][2] was a French classical and modernist pianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership[3] with Jacqueline Robin which lasted for forty-five years, until 1990. The composer Henri Dutilleux, whom she married in 1946, dedicated his Piano Sonata to her, which she recorded for Erato Records in 1988.

Geneviève Joy
Born(1919-10-04)4 October 1919
Died27 November 2009(2009-11-27) (aged 90)
Instrumentspiano

A native of the small commune of Bernaville in the Somme department in Northern France region of Picardy,[4] She was the daughter of Lina Breton from Bernaville and her Irish husband Charles Joy who served with the British Army during World War I.[5] Geneviève Joy was a piano child prodigy who was accepted to the world-renowned Conservatoire de Paris in 1932 at the age of 12.

In 1982 she served on the jury of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.[6]

She died in her sleep at a Paris hospital eight weeks after her 90th birthday[1] from cancer, and was subsequently buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.[7] Her husband, Henri, was buried in the same grave in 2013.

References
  1. Agence France-Presse (28 November 2009). "La pianiste française Geneviève Joy décède à l'âge de 90 ans". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  2. Agence France-Presse (28 November 2009). "Mort de la pianiste Geneviève Joy". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  3. Jean-Pierre Thiollet, 88 notes pour piano solo, "Solo de duo", Neva Editions, 2015, p.97. ISBN 978-2-3505-5192-0
  4. "Les éphémérides / 4 October 1936" (in French). Radio France. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
  5. "Geneviève Joy/ 15 December 2009". Daily Telegraph. London. 15 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
  6. Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition “Winners, members of the jury and artistic guests”
  7. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45587616


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