France Clidat

In 1948, at age 15, France Clidat played Henri Sauguet's Concerto in A minor in Geneva under the conductor Ernest Ansermet.

[2] She studied at the Paris Conservatory with Lazare Lévy,[3] Maurice Hewitt, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Norbert Dufourcq, and Robert Siohan[2] and received first prize in piano in 1950, at the age of 18.

After a recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Bernard Gavoty, reviewer for Le Figaro, dubbed her "Madame Liszt".

3, Mephisto Polka, Mazurka brillante, two Caprices-Valses, two Csardas, Scherzo and March, Marche solonelle in honour of Goethe, Galop in A minor and two Albumblätter)[6] and it gained her the Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros and the Grand Prix de l'Académie Européenne du Disque.

[5] She taught at the École Normale de Musique in Paris[4] for a number of years, where she attracted many students from around the world.