Marguerite Long

Marguerite Long (13 November 1874 - 13 February 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 in 1919 and Piano Concerto in G major in January 1932. 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), Micheline Laudun Denis (Haitian-born pianist currently residing in Petion Ville, Haiti), Monique Duphil (French pianist and professor at Oberlin) and Claude Coppens (Belgian pianist and composer).

Long's husband, Joseph de Marliave (1873-1914), was killed in August 1914 in action during World War I. Ravel dedicated the last section, the Toccata, of Le Tombeau de Couperin to him.

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