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Paule Carrère-Dencausse[1] (22 December 1891 – 21 October 1967) was a French pianist, concertist and teacher.[A 1]

Biography

Dencausse studied music at the conservatoire de Bordeaux: First Prize for solfège, piano in 1906, chamber music in 1908, harmony in 1910 as well as counterpoint and fugue in 1912.[2] She won the Musica International Piano Competition in 1912.[A 1]

She later studied musical composition with Julien Fernand Vaubourgoin who will dedicate his scherzo in C minor to her[2] and won a silver medal in the music composition competition (Romance sans paroles).[A 1]

First accompanying a singing class at the Bordeaux Conservatory, she was appointed professor of solfeggio in 1920 and professor of piano in 1931, a position she held until 1963. She was also a professor at the Marguerite Long Academy whose regional center she created in Bordeaux.[A 1]

She married violinist Georges Carrère in 1925 and therefore performed under the name of Paule Carrère-Dencausse. She was then, with Eugène Feillou (violist) and Henri Barouk (cellist), also a member of the Georges Carrère Quartet.[3]

Great names like Cortot, Fauré, Planté, Roger-Ducasse, Roussel and Saint-Saëns appreciated her talent. Louis Beydts dedicated his first work for piano to her.[2] Her qualities as an accompanist were also recognized: she was the reference accompanist for Louis Rosoor[4][5] and accompanied[A 2] Charles Panzéra in 1931 in Bordeaux.[6]

She trained a very large number of students, many of whom will become virtuosos, composers or teachers.

Family

She is the mother-in-law of the historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and the grandmother of the writer and director Emmanuel Carrère, the lawyer Nathalie Carrère and the doctor and journalist Marina Carrère d'Encausse.

Sources

• A. Edmond Cardoze, Musique et musiciens en Aquitaine, Aubéron, 1992

References

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