Odette Gartenlaub facts for kids

Odette Gartenlaub (13 March 1922 – 20 September 2014) was a French pianist, music teacher and composer.

Biography

Odette Gartenlaub studied music at the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen, Henri Busser, Noël Gallon and Darius Milhaud, and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1948. She became well known as a soloist, performing with orchestras internationally. In 1959 she took a position as a professor at the Paris Conservatory.

On September 20, 2014, she died at Hôpital Cochin in Paris, at the age of 92.

Works

Gartenlaub's compositions include works for orchestra, chamber ensemble and solo instruments. Selected works include:

• Étude concertante (1984) for viola solo
• Pour le Cor (1968) for horn and piano
• Les Coin des Enfants (1971) for piano
• Antique
• Grave et Toccata (1968) for piano
• Sept Petit Études
• Trois Caracteres (1974) for trombone and piano or orchestra; Paris Conservatory contest piece in 1974 and 1981