Henriette Puig-Roget

Henriette Puig-Roget (9 January 1910 – 24 November 1992) was a French pianist, organist and music educator.

For other uses, see Puig and Roget.
Henriette Puig-Roget
Born9 January 1910
Bastia, Corsica
Died24 November 1992(1992-11-24) (aged 82)
Paris
Education
Occupation
  • Classical organist
  • Music educator
Organization
AwardsPrix de Rome

Biography

Born in Bastia, she began her musical studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1919. She won 6 first prizes between 1926 and 1930 in the classes of Isidore Philipp, Jean Gallon and Noël Gallon, Maurice Emmanuel and Marcel Dupré: piano, harmony, music history, piano accompaniment, counterpoint, fugue, organ. She was also a student of Charles Tournemire in chamber music.

First Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1933, she was appointed the following year organist of the Oratoire du Louvre and the Grand Synagogue of Paris. She remained there until 1979 and 1952 respectively. As conductor of singing at the Opéra de Paris, she pursued a parallel career as a pianist on the radio from 1935, where she remained until 1975.

Henriette Roget, now Mrs. Ramon Puig-Vinyals, taught accompaniment at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1957. In 1979, she left to teach piano, music theory and chamber music at the Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. Among his students from this Tokyo period were Kazuoki Fujii (pianist),[1] Takenori Nemoto (French horn player), Hideki Nagano (pianist), Masakazu Natsuda (composer), Misato Mochizuki (composer)[2] and Mami Sakato (organist).[3]

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References
  1. Kazuoki Fujii on data.bnf.fr
  2. Misato Mochizuki
  3. Mami Sakato
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