Hélène Boschi

Who is Hélène Boschi?

Hélène Boschi was a Franco-Swiss pianist, born in Lausanne. She studied with Yvonne Lefébure and Alfred Cortot at the Ecole normale de musique in Paris. Throughout her life she led a dual career as a teacher and as a performer.

She was the first pianist to record the Sonatas of Padre Antonio Soler and the complete works for piano and chamber music of Clara Schumann. She played the music of the 20th Century, Bartok, Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Janáček or Martinu. Luigi Dallapiccola dedicated his Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera, Fernando Lopes-Graça his 3rd Sonata and Claude Ballif his 4th Sonata.

She also performed J-S Bach, François Couperin, Gabriel Fauré, Franck, Joseph Haydn, W-A Mozart, Robert Schumann. Jean-Philippe Rameau, K-M von Weber. Among his chamber music partners include Armand Angster, Gerard Caussé, Michel Debost, Irène Joachim, Annie Jodry, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Etienne Péclard, Peter Rybar, Milos Sadlo. Hélène Boschi also formed with pianist Germaine Mounier a duo with vast repertoire, recording works by Mozart, Clementi, Debussy and Busoni.