Auf Spurensuche in Paris. Yvette Grimaud, „Uraufführerin der 2. Boulez-Sonate“. Künstlerische Identität, Selbstkonzept und Netzwerk

Abstract

This article deals with the musical-cultural activities of the pianist, composer, and ethnomusicologist Yvette Grimaud (1921–2012). It explores Grimaud’s professional network, which she established as a student and young artist in Paris between the late 1930s and the early 1950s. It shows that Grimaud’s artistic identity and her self-concept coincided with this network well into her old age, and that the network could be reactivated without interruption in a different, new professional context after many years of inactivity.

Keywords

• twentieth-century music historiography
• women’s studies
• network
• biographical research
• cultural life in Paris 1930–1950
• artistic identity