Lelia Gousseau

Lélia Gousseau (11 February 1909 – 14 February 1997) was a 20th-century French classical pianist. Récipient of the Claire Pagès Prize (1928), laureate of the International Chopin Piano Competition of Warsaw (1937), Gousseau also received the Albert Roussel Prize (1939), a composer of whom she was the privileged performer (even today, her recordings of the Concerto, the Suite Op. 14, the three Pieces Op. 49 etc. are authoritative) Lélia Gousseau taught at the Conservatoire de Paris (1961-1978) as well as at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where her teaching was distinguished above all by an extreme attention paid to fingering, pedalling, deep playing and legato. Anne Queffélec, Émile Naoumoff, Jean-Pierre Ferey, Maria Tortelier-de la Pau, Alain Raës [fr], Pascal Devoyon and Kaoki Kimura were among her numerous pupils.