Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy (26 June 1893 in Paris – 7 January 1986 id.) was a French teacher of piano who founded the Évolution Musicale de la Jeunesse (EMJ) in July 1939, a Parisian association of concerts-educational conferences better known as Musigrains [fr] and having actually operated between February 1941 and May 1986. She herself presented most of the concerts until 1977, seconded or replaced as from 1964 by Rémy Stricker, Jean-Pierre Armengaud and Michel Capelier.
Hosted in the first and last years in the old Salle du Conservatoire [fr], the Pleyel and Gaveau venues, the Maison de la Mutualité and the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Musigrains were mostly associated to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées from 1949 to 1978. Focused on classical music, the concerts made incursions into the fields of contemporary music, classical or modern dance, folklore and jazz.
Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy was married to Pierre Arbeau-Barreau (Paris, 1897–Paris, 1979), a pianist and composer. They were close friends of Édouard Autant and Louise Lara, as well as Geneviève Joy and Henri Dutilleux.
Bibliography
- Laurent Herz, Les Musigrains, une institution pédagogique et musicale (1939-1986), at Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2013. ISBN 978-2-343-02020-4
References
- Évolution Musicale De La Jeunesse on Diskogs
- Les Musigrains, une institution pédagogique et musicale (1939-1986)
External links
- Les Musigrains on France Musique
- Les Musigrains on theatrechampselysees.fr
- La vie musicale sous Vichy by Josette Alviset on Google books
- The Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire, 1828-1967 on Google books
- Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy on data.bnf.fr
