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Yvonne Desportes (b. 1907, d. 1993) was a French writer and composer and daughter of Émile Desportes. She was born in Coburg, Germany, and studied with Noel and Jean Galton, Maurice Emmanuel, Paul Dukas and Marcel Dupre at the Paris Conservatory. She won the Prix de Rome in 1932 and lived in Rome from 1933-37 at the Villa de Medicis. While there she met another Prix de Rome winner, the French sculptor Ulysse Gémignani and they married. In 1943 she returned to Paris where she took a position teaching at the Paris Conservatory. Besides teaching and working as a composer, Desportes also wrote a number of textbooks. She died in Paris in 1993. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Fissures: 20th Century Music for Saxophone and Harp
SUITE ITALIENNE
Yvonne Desportes: Sérénade des oiseaux
Duets With Spanish Guitar
Clarinet Masquerade
Une fleur sur l'étang, for alto saxophone and harp - I. Shner (alto saxophone), Y. Endo Schlaffer (harp)
Pictures for Piano and Percusssion
Reflections: Lonni Inman & Bernd Ahlert
Fissures: 20th Century Music for Saxophone and Harp (Idit Shner & Yumiko Endo Schlaffer)
Fissures: 20th Century Music For Saxophone & Harp