French musician
Germaine Poliakov |
---|
Germain Poliakov in 1961 |
Born | Germaine Rousso 15 December 1918
|
---|
Died | 19 February 2020(2020-02-19) (aged 101)
|
---|
Nationality | French |
---|
Occupation | Music instructor |
---|
Germaine Poliakov (15 December 1918 — 19 February 2020) was an Ottoman-born French music teacher and Holocaust survivor.
Biography
Poliakov was born Germaine Rousso in 1918 in present-day Istanbul, but emigrated to France with her parents at the age of two.[1] She went into hiding from the Gestapo in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne,[2] and worked as a teacher for a hidden colony of Jewish children.[3] She gave birth to three children in 1942, 1943, and 1944.[4][5]
After the war, Germaine married the historian Léon Poliakov in 1947, with whom she bore a son in 1960. She founded the Chorale Accord in Massy in 1960.[6] Léon died in 1997.[7][8]
Poliakov died on 19 February 2020 at the age of 101.[9]
Works
- Initiation à la lecture mélodique : une nouvelle approche du solfège (1979)
- Psaume 92 (v. 13-16) : liturgie hébraïque [pour chœur à 4 voix mixtes (1979)[10][11]
- Chanter d'abord : solfège, initiation débutants : livre du maître (1984)[12][13]
- Chanter d'abord : solfège, initiation débutants : livre de l'élève (1984)[14]
Honors
References
|
---|
International | |
---|
National | |
---|
Other | |
---|