BORN 9 JANUARY 1910 - CORSICA
Henriette Puig-Roget was a French pianist, organist and music educator. 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), Takenori Nemoto (French horn player), Hideki Nagano (pianist), Masakazu Natsuda (composer), Misato Mochizuki (composer) and Mami Sakato (organist).
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Trois Ballades Françaises by Henriette Puig-Roget
BORN 9 JANUARY 1860, SWEDEN
Valborg Aulin was an eminent pianist, composer and piano teacher. She began her musical education at home, learning to play the piano from her grandmother, and soon was taking private lessons with Albert Rubenson, the director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. She enrolled at the academy at the age of 17 and spent the next five years studying the piano and composition, before a Jenny Lind Scholarship allowed her to travel to Copenhagen in 1885 and to Paris the following year. Under the tutelage of Benjamin Godard and Jules Massenet, Aulin gained plenty of admirers, judging by this diary entry of her sister-in-law’s: “Despite her total lack of outward charm, which Frenchmen are so highly appreciative of, she became popular due to her immense talent.”
Returning to Sweden, Aulin embarked on a career as a pianist, often collaborating with her younger brother, Tor, a composer and the leader of a well-regarded string quartet. In addition to teaching, she composed chamber works, art songs, and pieces for the piano—mainly evocative one-movement works, with titles such as Valse elegiaque and Album Leaves, the exception being a large-scale, four-movement Sonata in F minor, the aforementioned Grande Sonate Sérieuse. At the age of 43, however, despite being an established figure in Stockholm’s cultural circles, Aulin decided to leave the capital and move to the inland city of Örebro, 125 miles to the west. There she began work as an organist and a teacher, continuing to perform, though ceasing to write music.
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Valse élégiaque by Valborg Aulin
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