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- Jacques-Louis Monod was born on February 25, 1927 in Asnières, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is known for This Sporting Life (1963). He was married to Bethany Beardslee and Margrit Auhagen. He died on September 21, 2020 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.
- SpousesBethany Beardslee(1951 - ?) (divorced)Margrit Auhagen (divorced, 1 child)
- Composer, conductor, pianist and editor. He championed the music of avant-garde composers including Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern.
- Two of his cousins, Daniel Bovet and Jacques Monod, were Nobel Prize-winning scientists; another cousin was iconic filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.
- [In teaching] you're dealing with the real thing - with discipline, and with absolutes that you are trying to communicate. I enjoy that much more than performing.
- My experience has proved that you need at least one hour of rehearsal for every minute of music. Less than that, and you cannot do justice to the piece. Whenever I prepare for a performance, I think, "Maybe this time I'm going to do the piece as it should be done." But of course, it cannot be. When you perform a masterpiece, the piece always remains greater than any performance you can give.
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