Reine Flachot - a largely forgotten cellist. The French cellist Reine Flachot (1922-1998) was born in Argentina, but came to Paris at the age of 12 to study with Jean Dumont and Paul Bazelaire, as well as with Gerard Hekking at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1938 she made her debut at age 16 with conductor Paul Paray and the Concerts Colonne in Lalo’s Cello Concerto. She eventually earned the reputation as “the ambassador of the French cello school” and several contemporary concertos were written for, and premiered by, her including those by Emile Mawet, Pierre-Max Dubois, Andre Jolivet, Charles Brown, et al. From 1966 she taught at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. youtu.be/NFg_2xWwS2M
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