Tilliard, Simone

Tilliard, Simone French pianist, childhood friend of Poulenc, her parents were the Poulenc's neighbors in Nogent. She married Maurice Hewitt (1884 – 1971), second violinist with the Capet Quartet from 1910 to 1928, who was detained at Buchenwald in WWII because of his active work in the Resistance. In 1947, Tilliard accompanied Suzanne Peignot in recitals of French song in The Hague, Netherlands. She is the dedicatee of Poulenc's »L'Espionne« from Calligrammes as well as his Sonata (1918) for…