ABOUT MARCELLE MEYER
French musician who was taught piano by her sister Germaine. She would later die of a heart attack while playing her sister's piano.
She began studying at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1911 under the guidance of Alfred Cortot who beamed with pride after she gave a brilliant performance of a Camille Saint-Saëns concerto.
She was invited by Ravel to play a two-piano version of La Valse with him before a private audience that consisted of Igor Stravinsky .
She was married twice, first to actor Pierre Bertin, then to Italian lawyer Carlo Di Vieto. She had two daughters with Di Vieto.
She was depicted in a famous 1922 painting by artist Jacques-Émile Blanche in which she can be seen with Jean Cocteau and the composers' group Les Six.
