Paule Carrère-Dencausse

Paule Carrère-Dencausse (22 December 1891 – 21 October 1967) was a French pianist, concertist and teacher.

Biography Dencausse studied music at the conservatoire de Bordeaux: First Prize for solfège, piano in 1906, chamber music in 1908, harmony in 1910 as well as counterpoint and fugue in 1912. She won the Musica International Piano Competition in 1912.

Great names like Cortot, Fauré, Planté, Roger-Ducasse, Roussel and Saint-Saëns appreciated her talent. Louis Beydts dedicated his first work for piano to her. and accompanied Charles Panzéra in 1931 in Bordeaux.

She trained a large number of students, many of whom would become virtuosos, composers or teachers.

Family She is the mother-in-law of the historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and the grandmother of the writer and director Emmanuel Carrère, the lawyer Nathalie Carrère and the doctor and journalist Marina Carrère d'Encausse.