Jacqueline Robin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French musician
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Place of Birth: Saint-Astier, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Jacqueline Robin
- Jacqueline Robin (11 December 1917 in Saint-Astier, Dordogne – 3 February 2007 in Taverny) was a French pianist.
- Born Jacqueline Pangnier, she also performed as Jacqueline Bonneau. She entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of ten, and obtained five first prizes there.
- In 1945, she formed a celebrated piano duo with Geneviève Joy, who married French composer Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) the following year. Robin collaborated with the singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Gérard Souzay as a lieder accompanist.
- She was best known as a performer of French modernist music and of the works of Gabriel Fauré.
- She taught at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1968–88 and was decorated the Légion d'honneur in 1981. Jacqueline Robin married the composer Paul Bonneau on 22 January 1940 in Evreux.
- They divorced in 1959.
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