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Thérèse Brenet(* 22 October 1935 in Paris) is a French composer and music teacher.

Life

Born in Paris in 1935, Brenet comes from a family that has produced gifted musicians since the 18th century. As a child, she had piano lessons with Marguerite Long and lessons in solfège with Germaine Hugueniot. At the Reims Conservatoire she studied piano with Simone Glotz before entering the Conservatoire de Paris in 1954. Her teachers here included Maurice Duruflé, Noël Gallon, Darius Milhaud and Jean Rivier.

In 1965, together with Lucie Robert-Diessel, she won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata Les Visions prophétiques de Cassandre on a text by Robert Brasillach after Aeschylus. After her return from the stay at the Villa Medici in Rome associated with the prize, Brenet taught solfège, later “musical education”, at the Conservatoire de Paris as Pierre Lantier’s successor. Her students included the pianist Marie-Laure Gallier, the violist Alain Tresallet, the violinists Luc Héry and Denis Clavier, the percussionist Dominique Probst, the saxophonists Jacques Charles and Paul Wehage, the guitarist Nicolas Courtin, the harpist Serika Nakano and the composer and pianist Mark Robson.

In addition to their teaching activities, they have produced an extensive body of compositions, including chamber and vocal music as well as pieces for symphonic ensemble.

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