Marguerite Long (November 13, 1874 - February 13, 1966) was a French pianist. Marguerite Marie-Charlotte Long was born in Nîmes. She studied with Henri Fissot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in 1891, and privately with Antoine Marmontel. Marguerite Long gave the first performances of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and Piano Concerto in G major. From 1906 to 1940 she taught at the Paris Conservatoire, her students including Jacques Février,Willem Ibes and Samson François. The Palestine-Armenian piano pedagogue, Ms. Zvart Sarkissian is one of the last surviving students of Marguerite Long. Some of her notable students include Abdel-Rahman El-Bacha (first-prize winner, 1978 Concours Reine Elisabeth de Belgique), Waleed Hourani, Maria da Penha (third-prize winner, 1945 Busoni Competition), Willem Ibes (Dutch pianist and lecturer at the University of Saint Johns, Minnesota) and Micheline Laudun Denis (Haitian-born pianist currently residing in Petion Ville, Haiti).
Bibliography
- Dunoyer, Cecilia, Marguerite Long: a Life in French Music, 1874–1966, 1993) (with discography)
- Long, Marguerite, Au piano avec Claude Debussy, 1960 (Eng. 1972)
- —, Le Piano, 1959
- —, La Petite Méthode de piano, 1963
- —, Au piano avec Gabriel Fauré, 1963 (Eng. 1980)
- Long, Marguerite and with Pierre Laumonier, Au piano avec Ravel, 1971 (Eng. 1973)
- Weill, Janine, Marguerite Long: une vie fascinante, 1969
