Pierrette Mari [SEP] educated at
Pierrette Mari
Pierrette Mari (born 1929) is a French composer and musicologist.
Life and career.
Pierrette Mari was born in Nice and studied music at the Conservatory of Nice from 1943 to 1946. She entered the Paris Conservatory in 1950, where she studied with Noël Gallon, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. She won first prize in counterpoint in 1953 and first prize in fugue in 1954. In 1956, she received a scholarship to attend the Music and Theatre Conference in Salzburg. After completing her studies,
in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" at Besançon.
She worked on the repertoire with vocal coach Irène Aïtoff, with whom she gave her first recital devoted to lieder and melodies by Franz Liszt in 1978: many others followed. At the same time, she obtained a postgraduate diploma in musicology and psychology at the Paris-Sorbonne University.
Then, opting for recital and oratorio, she created many melodies by Roger Calmel , Georges Delerue, Lucie Robert-Diessel, Noël Lee, Pierrette Mari, etc. that