In 2006, Sombart was awarded one of the highest civilian honors France can bestow, the National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite) for Lifetime Achievement for her humanitarian work, and in 2008 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her artistic achievements.

[4] These included Bruno Leonardo Gelber in Buenos Aires; Peter Feuchtwanger in London, then Hilde Langer-Rühl [de] in Vienna.

[4] Sombart recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Pierre Vallet.

Her Confidences pour piano de Bach à Bártok, a series of 50 works produced by Peter Knapp was broadcast on France 3 TV.

[4] In 1998 she founded Fondation Résonnance, a philanthropic organization with the aim of bring classical music to hospitals, orphanages, prisons and refugee camps.

[3] In 2006, Sombart was awarded the highest honor that the French Government can give to a non-military person, the rank of Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite for Lifetime Achievement for her humanitarian service,[citation needed] and in 2008 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her artistic achievements.

Her great grandfather, Anton Ludwig Sombart (1816–1898), was an industrial entrepreneur, mayor of Ermsleben (in central Germany), and a member of the Prussian diet (parliament) and the German Reichstag.