Guy Fallot
Guy Fallot (1927–2018) was a French cellist born in Nancy. His father, Paul Fallot, was a geologist and professor who loved music and played violin. His mother was an amateur organist who played at the cathedral in Nancy. He began learning piano with his mother, and his name Guy came from his mother’s friendship with the composer Guy Ropartz.
He entered the Lausanne Conservatory at age 9 and won the virtuosity prize at 14. A year later, he and his sister Monique won first prize at the Geneva Sonata Competition. He then won first prize at the Paris Conservatory in 1946 in the class of Paul Bazelaire.
Fallot taught mainly at the Geneva and Lausanne conservatories and trained many students. He had an international performing career, with a brief break because of a hand problem. He often played sonatas with pianist Rita Possa, who also accompanied his conservatory classes.
One of his recordings from the 1950s is Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the SWR Baden-Baden orchestra, conducted by André Jouve, on the Ducretet-Thomson label. He died in Lausanne in 2018 at age 91.
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