Genevieve Joy 杰尼维夫·乔伊
杰尼维夫·乔伊
G·Joy / G·乔伊地區法国
類型个人
職業钢琴
藝人資料
Geneviève Joy(4 October 1919 — 27 November 2009) was a Frenchclassicalandmodernistpianist who, at the end of World War II in 1945, formed a critically acclaimed duo-piano partnership withJacqueline Robinwhich lasted for forty-five years, until 1990. The composerHenri Dutilleux, whom she married in 1946, dedicated hisPiano Sonatato her, which she recorded forErato Recordsin 1988.
A native of the small commune of Bernaville in the Somme department in Northern France region of Picardy,She was the daughter of an Irish woman and a French father who served with the British Army during World War I. Geneviève Joy was a piano child prodigy who was accepted to the world-renowned Conservatoire de Paris in 1932 at the age of 12.
She died in her sleep at a Paris hospital eight weeks after her 90th birthday from cancer, and was subsequently buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.[5]Her husband, Henri, was buried in the same grave in 2013.
