Marcelle Meyer

Meyer became Satie's favored pianist and premiered Francis Poulenc's Sonata for piano four hands with the composer.

She became famous for her talent[1] and gave recitals in England, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as giving many premieres, including works by Arthur Honegger, Alexis Roland-Manuel, and Igor Markevitch.

[2] She was also among those pioneers who re-discovered in France the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Jean-Philippe Rameau, François Couperin and Domenico Scarlatti.

In 1922 Jacques-Émile Blanche painted Marcelle Meyer in the company of Jean Cocteau and Les Six, a group of composers consisting of Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre.

She died on 17 November 1958 aged 61 after suffering a heart attack while playing in her sister's Paris apartment.