Jeanne Loriod
- Category : 1928-births
- Type : GE
- Profile : 6/2 - Role Model / Hermit
- Definition : Split - Small (48)
- Incarnation Cross : LAX Cycles 1
Biography
French musician, regarded as the world's leading exponent of the ondes Martenot.
Loriod's enormous repertoire included fourteen concertos, some three hundred works with concertante parts for ondes and another 250 chamber works. She also performed on numerous film soundtracks (including - perhaps most accessibly - the 1981 animated feature, Heavy Metal), and published a definitive work on the instrument, the three-volume treatise Technique de l’onde electronique type martenot (1987).
She suffered a stroke and drowned on 3 August 2001 while swimming near Antibes on the French Riviera.