List of Famous people with last name Martenot

Ginette Martenot

First Name Ginette

Born on January 27, 1902

Died on September 6, 1996 (aged 94)

Born in France, Île-de-France

Ginette Martenot (1902–1996) was a French pianist, and an expert and leading performer on the twentieth-century electronic instrument the ondes Martenot, which was invented by her brother Maurice. At the age of sixteen, she entered the Paris Conservatory, where she studied counterpoint and fugue with the composer Arthur Honegger. She gave the first performance as solo ondist in Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, with Yvonne Loriod taking the solo piano part.

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Maurice Martenot

Maurice Louis Eugène Martenot

First Name Maurice

Last Name Martenot

Born on October 14, 1898

Died on October 8, 1980 (aged 81)

Born in France, Île-de-France, Paris

Maurice Louis Eugène Martenot was a French cellist, a radio telegrapher during the first World War, and an inventor.

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