Nicole Henriot; Pianist Specialized in French Works

French pianist Nicole Henriot, who entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 7 and went on to perform around the globe with conductor Charles Munch, has died at the age of 75.

Henriot died Friday in Louveciennes, west of Paris, Annick Boccon-Jibod of the Orchestra of Paris said Monday.

Emerging on the world music scene after World War II, Henriot built her reputation on the freshness of her interpretations of composers from Liszt to Prokofiev, and especially of works by French composers such as Ravel, Faure and Milhaud.

She was most famous, however, for her performances with Munch, who was music director of the Boston Symphony from 1949 to 1962.

Born in 1925, Henriot won the Paris Conservatory’s first prize at the age of 13.

During the war, Henriot worked with the French Resistance, helping her brother, who was active in the underground.

Henriot was the first French pianist to appear in Britain after World War II and began an international tour that took her from Scandinavia to Egypt. She made her American debut in 1948 as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Munch’s direction.

When Munch formed the Orchestra of Paris in 1967, Henriot was one of its first soloists.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Henriot devoted herself to teaching, and worked at the Conservatory of Liege, Belgium, and at the Walloon Conservatory of Brussels.