Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt

Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (24 February 1884 - 2 August 1964) was a French composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Paris and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux, Vincent d'Indy and Maurice Emmanuel.[1]

She married ethnologist Raoul d'Harcourt and afterward researched South American and Canadian[2] folk music, publishing texts in collaboration with him. She also collected and published folk melodies from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and other countries in standard European notation.[3] She died in Paris.

Works

Selected works include:

Writings with Raoul d'Harcourt include:

References

  1. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. Levine, Victoria Lindsay (1977). Recent researches in American music. American Musicological Society.
  3. Boenke, Heidi M. (1988). Flute music by women composers: an annotated catalog.