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- Birth nameMarie-Claire Geneviève Alain
- Marie-Claire Alain was born on August 10, 1926 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France. She was an actress, known for The French Dispatch (2021), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) and Picture Perfect (1997). She was married to Jacques Gommier. She died on February 26, 2013 in Le Pecq, Yvelines, France.
- SpouseJacques Gommier(1950 - 1992) (his death, 2 children)
- ParentsAlbert AlainMagdeleine Alberty
- RelativesJehan Alain(Sibling)Marie-Odile Alain(Sibling)Olivier Alain(Sibling)
- She was an organist, teacher, and recording artist. She taught at the Paris Conservatory, where she had studied after World War II with Marcel Dupré and Maurice Duruflé.
- She was the youngest child in a family of musicians. At age 11, she began assisting her father, Albert, at the organ in the church of Saint-Germain, and succeeded him there after he died in 1971.
- She championed the organ works of her oldest brother, Jehan Alain, a composer who was killed in action against the German invasion of France in 1940.
- I come from a musical family, and we played Bach virtually every evening, playing on the organ, singing cantatas - Bach was almost a family illness! (in an interview in British quarterly The Organ)
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