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Marguerite Long (November 13, 1874 - February 13, 1966) was a French pianist. Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine Marmontel. Marguerite Long gave the first performances of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Piano Concerto in G major. From 1906 to 1940 she taught at the Paris Conservatoire, her students including Jacques Février,Willem Ibes and Samson François.
The Palestine-Armenian piano pedagogue, Ms. Zvart Sarkissian is one of the last surviving students of Marguerite Long. Some of her notable students include Abdel-Rahman El-Bacha (first-prize winner, 1978 Concours Reine Elisabeth de Belgique), Waleed Hourani, Maria da Penha (third-prize winner, 1945 Busoni Competition), Willem Ibes (Dutch pianist and lecturer at the University of Saint Johns, Minnesota), Micheline Laudun Denis (Haitian-born pianist currently residing in Petion Ville, Haiti), and Claude Coppens (Belgian pianist and composer).

Bibliography

Dunoyer, Cecilia, Marguerite Long: a Life in French Music, 1874–1966, 1993) (with discography)
Long, Marguerite, Au piano avec Claude Debussy, 1960 (Eng. 1972)
—, Le Piano, 1959
—, La Petite Méthode de piano, 1963
—, Au piano avec Gabriel Fauré, 1963 (Eng. 1980)
Long, Marguerite and with Pierre Laumonier, Au piano avec Ravel, 1971 (Eng. 1973)
Weill, Janine, Marguerite Long: une vie fascinante, 1969

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