Tosca Marmor

Pianist and singing teacher who trained a good part of French singers, died in the night of 29 to 30 December 1993, at the age of ninety-two, at the hospital Boucicault (Paris 15th). His students included: Sylvie Vartan, Sacha Distel, Dalida, Nino Ferrer, Mouloudji, Leny Escudero, Guy Béart, Francis Lemarque, Chantal Goya, Jean-Jacques Debout, Régine, Maurice Fanon, Françoise Hardy, Marie Laforêt, Rika Zaraï, Dany Saval, Romy Schneider, Maria Casares, Françoise Fabian, Mireille Darc, Mylene Demongeot, Anny Duperey, Eddie Marnay, Jean Drejac, Annie Fratellini, Pierre Vanneck, Pascale Lamy, Alain Khan. Tosca Marmor has also trained opera singers such as tenor Enzo Seri and Nicole Derhille. Tosca Marmor, born in Poland, studied piano in Vienna with Emile Sauer, the most famous student of Franz Liszt. Coming to Paris in the thirties, she became a virtuoso pianist, including Toscanini, Arnold Schönberg. Arrested by the Nazis with her son in Nice, she was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. On her return from deportation, she will take up the piano while accompanying the choreographer Serge Lifar before devoting herself to teaching singing. She is also the author of the "Piano rouge" (1989, Fayard).