Lucie Robert-Diesselaus modern

Lucie Robert-Diessel (*3 October 1936 † in Rennes; 25 August 2019 in Paris) was a French composer and pianist.

Life

Diessel began her education at the age of twelve at the conservatory of her hometown. She then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she received first prizes in seven subjects and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1965 together with Thérèse Brenet.

After the three-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome associated with the prize, Robert-Diessel taught harmony, music theory and piano at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1972 to 2001. In addition, she has performed as a pianist throughout Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan and has recorded numerous radio recordings for the BBC, RAI, WDR and Swiss Radio DRS.

She composed works for piano, chamber music, songs, choral and orchestral works, as well as more than twenty pieces for saxophone solo, saxophone and piano, saxophone ensembles as well as saxophone and other instruments, including a double concerto for saxophone, piano and orchestra. In 2002 he created Dialogue Sinfonique, a concerto for saxophone and string quintet, woodwind quintet, piano and timpani, which was premiered the following year by Steven Jordheim.

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