On June 23, 2012, Brigitte Engerer died. She was not yet 60 years old. The pianist, who had given her first concert half a century earlier, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées thanks to the famous tournament of the Kingdom of Music, will have marked throughout her public career critics and musician friends by her generosity outside the common, its mixture of strength and fragility, and above all its playing. A game at the same time
"humor, drama, exuberance and pleasure"
, as described by the writer Yann Queffélec in his review of a certain concert in 1982 , during which will be sealed his meeting with the one he will later call his
"rare angel".
It is one of the fleeting and moving reminders of the biography which has just appeared, from the pen full of tenderness and curiosity of Nathalie Depadt-Renvoisé.
Psychologist at the Villejuif cancer center, but also a pianist, the latter had only met the soloist once, two months before her disappearance.
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It is from this meeting
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