Yvonne Loriod, who died on Monday aged 86, was a celebrated French pianist, a champion of the electronic ondes Martenot instrument, and a specialist in the music of her husband, Olivier Messiaen. 18 ...

Yvonne Loriod, the French pianist whose musical exactitude and intensity inspired numerous masterpieces by her husband, the composer Olivier Messiaen, died on Monday at a retirement home in ...

Because Messiaen left the score incomplete at his death in 1992, it remained for his widow, Yvonne Loriod, to finish the orchestration. Its four movements show Messiaen, then in his 80s, turning away ...

Yvonne Loriod's name will always be connected with that of her husband Olivier Messiaen, whose piano works she championed faithfully for six decades. Indeed, one of her best-known students, Paul ...

In 1988 Marc Soustrot conducts the Australian Chamber Orchestra and pianist Yvonne Loriod in Messiaen's epic 'From the Canyons to the Stars', performed in the presence of the composer. In the winter ...

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Jeanne Loriod, the leading performer on an electronic instrument used in film scores from “Lawrence of Arabia” to “Mars Attacks!” and in many symphonic works to produce mysterious glassy tones and ...

Jeanne Loriod, leading performer of the ondes martenot, an electronic instrument whose haunting wail was used in such film scores as “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Mad Max” and “Mars Attacks!,” died of a ...

Yvonne Louise Georgette Loriod-Messiaen (20 January 1924 – 17 May 2010) was a French pianist, teacher, and composer, and the second wife of composer Olivier Messiaen. Her sister was the Ondes Martenot ...

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