Odile Bailleux (born 30 December 1939) is a French harpsichordist and organist.
Odile Bailleux (born 30 December 1939) is a French harpsichordist and organist.
Born in Trappes, Odile Bailleux studied music at the Versailles conservatory and the École César Franck in the organ class with Jean Fellot [1] and Édouard Souberbielle. After she participated in 1964 in the International Academy of the Organ in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, she left in 1969 in Frankfurt to work with the organist Helmut Walcha. She is the substitute for Antoine Reboulot at the grand organ of the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) and since 1973 she holds the same post with André Isoir. She has been teaching the organ since 1989 at the conservatory of Bourg-la-Reine. She is the titular of the Grand Organ of the Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux church.
As a harpsichordist she has been performing the continuo in the group Musique-Ensemble and La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy since 1977.
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