Colette Maze was long an accomplished pianist and teacher. But it was only in the late 1990s, when she was over 80, that her son persuaded her to begin recording commercially.
Colette Maze, who has died aged 109, began her recording career at the age of 90 after a lifetime spent teaching the piano; she made a speciality of Debussy’s music, pointing out that during her childhood in First World War Paris she lived near the Impressionist composer. “We could have seen each other,” she speculated.