was a French teacher of piano who founded the Évolution Musicale de la Jeunesse[1] (EMJ) in July 1939, a Parisian association of concerts-educational conferences better known as Musigrains [fr] and having actually operated between February 1941 and May 1986.
She herself presented most of the concerts until 1977, seconded or replaced as from 1964 by Rémy Stricker, Jean-Pierre Armengaud and Michel Capelier.
Hosted in the first and last years in the old Salle du Conservatoire [fr], the Pleyel and Gaveau venues, the Maison de la Mutualité and the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Musigrains were mostly associated to the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées from 1949 to 1978.
Germaine Arbeau-Bonnefoy was married to Pierre Arbeau-Barreau (Paris, 1897–Paris, 1979), a pianist and composer.
They were close friends of Édouard Autant and Louise Lara, as well as Geneviève Joy and Henri Dutilleux.