Yvette Horner

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Yvette Horner (née Hornère; 22 September 1922 – 11 June 2018) was a French accordionist, pianist and composer known for performing with the Tour de France during the 1950s and 1960s. During her 70-year long career, she gave more than two thousand concerts and released around 150 records, selling a total of 30 million copies. Horner won the Coupe mondiale de l'accordéon in 1948, and the Grand…

Known for

• La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)2022
• Prêt-à-Porter — Self (uncredited)1994
• Eurotrash1993
• Stars 90 — Self1990
• Nulle part ailleurs — Self1987
• Le monde est à vous — Self1987
• Sacrée soirée — Self1987
• La Chance aux chansons — Self1984
• Champs-Elysées — Self1982
• Fan School — Self1977

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

12,193

Total plays

122,202

Yvette Horner (Tarbes, France, 22 September 1922 - 11 June 2018) was a French musette accordionist. Horner studied music at the Conservatory of Tarbes and Toulouse Conservatoire where, aged 11, she won a 1st prize for piano. Her mother forced her to change the instrument to the accordion, saying "there are none accordionist women and there you'll get a situation." Young Yvette begins to perform in casinos and continues her education in Paris where she studied with Robert Breard. <a href="https

via Last.fm · Yvette Horner

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Eugénie

Gender

female

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Tarbes

Place of death

Courbevoie

Occupation

musician

Languages spoken

French

Genre

bal-musette

Instrument

piano

Official website

www.yvettehorsnorme.com

Image

Tour de France , Mette Horner, Bestanddeelnr 911-3760.jpg

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