Françoise Renet

Who was Françoise Renet?

Françoise Renet was a French organist. She studied with Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, and Nadia Boulanger. For 30 years she was associated with the great Cavaillé-Coll at Saint-Sulpice: in 1955, Dupré named her Assistant Organist, and his successor Jean-Jacques Grunenwald kept her in this capacity. She was also Interim Organist during the Dupré/Grunenwald and Grunenwald/Roth interregna.

From 1972 to 1990, Renet taught the organ class at the Marcel Dupré Conservatory in Meudon.