Marcelle Meyer

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Marcelle Meyer (1897-1958) was a French pianist. She was born in Lille, France on May 22, 1897. She was taught piano from the age of five by her sister Germaine, and entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1911. She died on the November 17, 1958 after suffering a heart attack while playing at her sister's piano.

In 1922 Jacques-Émile Blanche painted Marcelle Meyer in the company of Jean Cocteau and the Groupe des Six, a group of composers consisting of Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre.

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