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Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
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Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
Born in Paris, he is best known for his invention of the ondes Martenot, an instrument he first realized in 1928 and spent decades improving. He unveiled a microtonal model in 1938. Martenot himself performed as an "ondist" with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski in 1930.
The 1937 World"s Fair in Paris awarded him "Le Grand Prix de l"Exposition Mondiale".
He taught lessons at the Paris Conservatoire during the 1940s. A Martenot biography, in French, has been written by ondist Jean Laurendeau.
His invention of the ondes Martenot is the subject of the 2013 Quebec documentary Wavemakers, in which Laurendeau also appears.