Suzanne Joly
Suzanne Joly (16 March 1914 – 2012) was a French composer and pianist born in Oran.[1]
A child prodigy, she performed in Algeria and France before studying piano under Lazare-Lévy and Antoinette Véluard, and composition under Olivier Messiaen and Jean Roger-Ducasse at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her real name was 'Suzanne Obadia', wife of painter Louis Joly, she wrote musical works covering all genres: Petite Suite for orchestra (1942)[2] Sérénade; Fantaisie concertante for piano and orchestra (1944–1948)[3] Rupestre pour orchestre (1968)[4] Mélodies (Paul Verlaine, Andrée Brunin,...); Ode à la Jeune Fille (1968); String quartet; Thème, Variations et Allegro Fugato for solo piano (1956) etc.
Died in Paris in 2012, she was buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux.
A large portion of her archives is housed at the Centre International Albert Roussel.
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- Conservatoire de Paris alumni
- Academic staff of the Schola Cantorum de Paris
- 20th-century French women classical pianists
- 20th-century French classical pianists
- French women classical composers
- 1914 births
- 2012 deaths
- People from Oran
- French music educators
- French women music educators
- French classical composers
- Pieds-Noirs
- Emigrants from French Algeria to France