Suzanne Joly (16 March 1914 – 2012) was a French composer and pianist born in Oran.

A child prodigy, she performed in Algeria and France before becoming the student for the piano of Lazare-Lévy and Antoinette Véluard, for writing of Olivier Messiaen and Jean Roger-Ducasse at the Conservatoire de Paris. Her real name was 'Suzanne Obadia', wife of painter Louis Joly, she wrote a musical work covering all genres: Petite Suite for orchestra (1942) Sérénade; Fantaisie concertante for piano and orchestra (1944–1948) Rupestre pour orchestre (1968) Mélodies (Paul Verlaine, Andrée Brunin,...); Ode à la Jeune Fille (1968); String quartet; Thème, Variations et Allegro Fugato for solo piano (1956) etc.

Suzanne Joly

Died in Paris in 2012, she was buried at Cimetière parisien de Bagneux.

Suzanne Joly

A large part of her archives is housed at the Centre International Albert Roussel.

Suzanne Joly

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Conservatoire de Paris alumni

Academic staff of the Schola Cantorum de Paris

20th-century French women classical pianists

French women classical composers

1914 births

2012 deaths

People from Oran

French music educators

French women music educators

French classical composers

Pieds-Noirs

Emigrants from French Algeria to France