Yvonne Lefébure
Yvonne Lefébure was one of the premier French pianists and teachers of the twentieth century. A prodigy, Lefébure studied with Maurice Emmanuel and Charles-Marie Widor at the Paris Conservatoire and also took private lessons with Alfred Cortot, who is said to have had the greatest influence over her playing. Lefébure maintained a lifelong concert schedule and was a favorite of conductors such as Igor Markevitch, Sir Adrian Boult, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and in particular Pablo Casals, who regularly employed her in his Prades and Perpignan festivals of the 1950s and 1960s. These conductors liked her no-nonsense approach, which was tempered with a high emotional sensitivity and an artistic flair. As Lefébure could balance all of these disparate elements with a sense of strong self-discipline, yet flexibility, it made her an ideal choice in concerto literature.
But Lefébure's work on the concert platform paled in comparison to her activities as a piano teacher. Lefébure held two major, long-term engagements as an instructor; first as the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and later at the Paris Conservatoire, where she taught until 1969. Lefébure continued in private lessons up until her death in 1986. While the names Samson François and Dinu Lipatti are often brought up as prize pupils befitting from Lefébure's training, the full roster of her students reads like a who's who of late twentieth century concert artists. Some of her commentary and teaching was gathered into a posthumous volume entitled La leçon de musique de Yvonne Lefébure. She also spoke on music and gave instruction to the general public via radio and television broadcasts. Unfortunately, Yvonne Lefébure only seldom recorded. Particularly exceptional is her recording with Casals from Perpignan of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor, K. 466. Made in 1951, it remained unreleased until after her death in 1994, as Columbia was unable to find an appropriate "coupling" to go with it at the time it was made. Lefébure's later recordings were made for the French label Solstice, and her recording of the piano works of Ravel was awarded the coveted Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles Cros.
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Discography
18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Le Tombeau de Couperin
Classical - Released by Solstice on 21 Jun 2010
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les Inédits
Classical - Released by Solstice on 1 Sep 2015
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Yvonne Lefébure joue J.-S. Bach
Classical - Released by Solstice on 1 Jul 1984
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Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D. 960 - Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
Classical - Released by Solstice on 7 May 2010
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Enregistrements inédits (volume 2)
Classical - Released by Solstice on 11 Sep 2012
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Concertos pour piano et orchestre
Yvonne Lefébure and Paul Paray
Classical - Released by Solstice on 3 Jan 2010
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Debussy & Emmanuel: Piano Works (Claude Debussy - Maurice Emmanuel)
Classical - Released by Solstice on 1 Jan 2010
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Joue Beethoven
Yvonne Lefébure, Sándor Végh, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, RTF National Orchestra
Classical - Released by Solstice on 16 Mar 2011
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Yvonne Lefébure joue l'opus 106
Classical - Released by Solstice on 30 Nov 2007
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Beethoven, Mozart & Others: Piano Works
Classical - Released by Profil on 5 Nov 2021
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Enregistrements inédits
Solo Piano - Released by Solstice on 1 Jul 1995
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Gabriel Fauré - Paul Dukas
Classical - Released by Solstice on 1 Jan 1980
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Couperin - Debussy - Roussel
Classical - Released by Solstice on 15 Sep 2008
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The Art of Jeanne Gautier
Jeanne Gautier, Geneviève Joy, Yvonne Lefébure, Vlado Perlemuter, André Lévy
Chamber Music - Released by Artemisia on 17 Jun 2022
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Debussy: La Boîte à Joujoux, L. 128, Bach: Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-Sharp Major, BWV 848 & Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor, BWV 1052
Yvonne Lefébure, Pierre Bertin, Chamber Orchestra Fernand Oubradous
Classical - Released by Solstice on 23 Feb 2010
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Yvonne Lefébure, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Classical - Released by Mangora Classic on 1 Jan 2014
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466
Classical - Released by Past Classics on 24 Aug 2009
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Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor • Berliner Philharmoniker • Yvonne Lefébure, piano : Mozart • Beethoven
Yvonne Lefébure, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berliner Philharmoniker
Classical - Released by Ermitage Records on 1 Jan 1992
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo