Madeleine Milhaud
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Madeleine Milhaud | |
Born | March 22, 1902 Paris, France |
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Died | January 17, 2008 (aged 105) Paris, France |
Occupation | Stage actress and reciter |
Madeleine Milhaud (March 22, 1902 – January 17, 2008) was the cousin and the wife of Darius Milhaud, a 20th-century French-Jewish composer.
Madeleine Milhaud was born in Paris. Her father, Darius' uncle, was from Aix-en-Provence, and her mother from Brussels. She began acting at a young age, and had a long career as an actress and reciter.
Darius and Madeleine Milhaud were married in 1925; they had one son, Daniel (born 1930), a painter. Darius' piano suite La Muse Menagère (The Household Muse) is dedicated to her, and depicts their daily life together. She wrote the libretti for his operas Médée and Bolivar.
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- Milhaud, Madeleine & Clary, Mildred (2002). Mon XXème siècle. Paris: Bleu Nuit Editeur.
- Nichols, Roger (1996). Conversations with Madeleine Milhaud. London: Faber and Faber Limited.