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French composer, writer, and medieval music researcher (1890–1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yvonne Rokseth (née Rihouët, 17 July 1890 – 23 August 1948) was a French composer, musicologist, organist, violinist, and writer. She was active in the French resistance during World War II and is best known for her research on medieval music.[1][2][3]
Yvonne Rihouët was born in Maisons-Laffitte. Her father was a law officer at the appellate court in Paris. She studied music at the Paris Conservatory, the Schola Cantorum, and the Sorbonne. Her teachers included Abel Decaux, Vincent d'Indy, Andre Pirro, and Albert Roussel. Her dissertation was entitled La musique d'orgue au XVe siècle et au début du XVIe (Organ Music of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries). The Schola Cantorum awarded a prize for her composition Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra.[2][4]
Rokseth had a daughter, Odile Ledieu, in 1918. She married the Norwegian literary scholar Peter Hjalmar Rokseth in 1925, and they had two daughters, Anne-Cécile and Ève-Marie.[5]
In 1921, Rokseth began working as an organist at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Paris, later moving to be the organist for a Danish church nearby. In 1933, she became a librarian at the Paris Conservatory.[2][4]
Rokseth began teaching musicology at the University of Strasbourg in 1937. Her students included Pauline Alderman and Jacques Chailley. She started a choir there in 1939, played viola and piano, and organized concerts. During World War II, Rokseth hid (probably Jewish) students in her apartment, distributed pamphlets for the French Resistance, and allowed radio programs for the Resistance to be transmitted from her apartment. She was later awarded a medal for her work during the war.[2][4][5]
In 1948, Rokseth was awarded the Medaille du Concours des Antiquites de la France for her four-volume work Polyphonies du XIIIe Siecle [Polyphony of the 13th Century]. She published several books and many articles about musicology, including 47 book reviews. Rokseth died in Strasbourg in 1948.[4]
Rokseth's works were published by Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre and the Société française de musicologie .[6] Her publications include:
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