Noëlie Pierront

Noëlie Pierront (23 September 1899 – 25 September 1988) was a 20th-century French organist, concertist and music educator.

Born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Pierront started to study the pipe organ with Abel Decaux, Louis Vierne and Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum de Paris.

Subsequently, a student of Eugène Gigout and Marcel Dupré at the Conservatoire de Paris, where Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, André Fleury, Maurice Duruflé, Jean Langlais and Gaston Litaize among others were her colleagues, she won its First Prize in organ in 1928.

She also worked the organ privately with André Marchal and musical composition with Guy de Lioncourt at the Schola Cantorum de Paris.

She was the organist at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church from 1926 to 1928, then titular organist at the Église Saint-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou () in Paris from 1929 to 1970.

Pierront taught at the Schola Cantorum de Paris from 1925 to 1932.

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