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Odile Bailleux (30 December 1939 – 19 November 2024) was a French harpsichordist and organist.
Life and career
Born in Trappes, Odile Bailleux studied music at the Versailles conservatory and the École César Franck in the organ class with Jean Fellot and Édouard Souberbielle. After she participated in 1964 in the International Academy of the Organ in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, she left in 1969 in Frankfurt to work with the organist Helmut Walcha. She was the substitute for Antoine Reboulot at the grand organ of the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) and beginning in 1973 she held the same post with André Isoir. She taught the organ beginning in 1989 at the conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine. She was the titular of the Grand Organ of the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux church.
As a harpsichordist she performed the continuo in the group Musique-Ensemble and La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy from 1977.
Bailleux died on 19 November 2024, at the age of 84.
Selected recordings
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres, H.96, H.97, H.98/108, H.102, H.103, H.109, H.105, H.106, H. 110, H.100 a, Odile Bailleux, organ, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy conducted by Jean Claude Malgoire. 3 LP CBS 1978.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe de minuit sur les airs de Noël H.9, Henri Ledroit, John Elwes, Gregory Reinhart, Odile Bailleux, organ, Les Petits chanteurs de Chaillot, Roger Thirot (chef de choeur), CD CBS, 1982
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: "Vêpres Solennelles" H.540, H.190, H.50, H.149, H.52, H.150, H.51, H.161, H.191, H.65, H.77, John Elwes, Ian Honeyman, tenors, Agnès Mellon, Brigitte Bellamy, sopranos, Dominique Visse, Jean Nirouet, countertenors, Philippe Cantor, Jacques Bona, baritones, Choeur régional- Nord Pas de Calais, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Odile Bailleux, organ, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire (2 CD CBS Sony 1987)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Messe à 4 Chœurs H.4, Odile Bailleux, organ, Choeur régional Nord-Pas-de-Calais, La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy, conducted by Jean Claude Malgoire. CD Erato 1991.
Sources
Alain Pâris (1995). Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XXe. Bouquins (in French). Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont. pp. 177–178. ISBN 2-221-08064-5.
References
External links
Odile Bailleux on Discogs
"Discographie d'Odile Bailleux". france-orgue.fr.
Odile Bailleux à l'orgue de Sète en 1982 (Spanish composers) on YouTube
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- Odile Bailleux
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- Trappes
- Édouard Souberbielle
- MAfestival Brugge
- Jean-Baptiste Robin
- John Elwes (tenor)
- Agnès Mellon
- Philippe Cantor