Yvette Horner
Brought French accordion to a national audience through concert recordings and eleven Tour de France caravans.
- Years
- 1922–2018
- Country
- France
- Instrument
- Accordion
Yvette Horner was born in Tarbes, France. Trained first in piano, she also built a career on accordion and became the first woman to win the Coupe Mondiale in 1948. She received an Académie Charles-Cros record prize in 1950; a later piano and accordion recital was issued as Le Jardin secret d’Yvette Horner.
From 1952 she played for eleven Tour de France caravans, often performing from a car roof along the route. That visibility brought the accordion beyond dance halls to a national audience. In later decades she kept changing her stage image, including costumes designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, while continuing to cross musical styles.
Selected works, recordings and publications
- Le Jardin secret d’Yvette Horner1987
A piano and accordion recital documented in a 1987 library catalogue record.
EditionCatalogued edition · 1987
Publication source - Tour de France caravans1952–1963
Accordion performances along the race route for eleven years.
Release / publisherTouring performances
Publication source