Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (24 February 1884 – 2 August 1964) was a French composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in

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and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux,

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and Maurice Emmanuel. She married ethnologist Raoul d'Harcourt and afterward researched South American and Canadian folk music, publishing texts in collaboration with him. She also collected and published folk melodies from

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an notation. She died in Paris.

Works

Selected works include: *''Fifty popular Indian Melodies'', 1923 *''Raimi, or the Feast of the sun'', ballet, 1926 *''3 Sonnets from the Renaissance'', 1930 *''String Quartet'', 1930 *''Three symphonic movements'', 1932 *''Children in the pen'', melodies, 1934–1935 *''Twenty-four Folk Songs of Old Quebec'', 1936 *''Sonata Three'', 1938 *''Dierdane'', lyric drama, 1937–1941 *''Sonatine'' for flute and piano, 1946 *''The Seasons'', 2nd symphony, 1951–1952 Writings with Raoul d'Harcourt include: *''Music of the Incas and its survivals'', Paris, P. Geuthner, 1925 *''French folk songs of Canada: their musical languag''e, Paris, PUF, 1956

References

1884 births 1964 deaths 20th-century classical composers French music educators French classical composers French women classical composers Pupils of Vincent d'Indy Musicians from Paris French ethnomusicologists Pupils of Maurice Emmanuel Schola Cantorum de Paris alumni 20th-century French women musicians 20th-century French composers 20th-century French musicologists Women music educators French women anthropologists 20th-century women composers {{ethnomusicologist-stub