He began learning the instrument with Sophie Chéné (teacher of Blanche Selva), then studied with Louis Diémer (1919) and finally with Marguerite Long.
In 1926 he worked at the Radiodiffusion Française, but at the same time he returned to the Conservatoire in counterpoint class with Georges Caussade and music composition with Paul Vidal and Henri Büsser.
Among his pupils were İdil Biret, Roger Boutry, Philippe Entremont, Marie-Thérèse Fourneau,[2] Claude Kahn, André Krust, Arthur Moreira Lima, Bernard Job, Dominique Merlet and Chantal Riou.
[5] He also enjoyed playing Vincent d'Indy's Fantaisie sur un vieil air de ronde française[6] and Samazeuilh's Trois Danses.
However, he recorded Chopin's waltzes, and premiered the Variations sur un thème de Don Juan.