Marcelle de Manziarly

Marcelle de Manziarly (b. 1/13 October 1899, d. 12 May 1989) was a French pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. She was born in Kharkiv, studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the age of 23 had already composed two mature works. She later studied conducting with Felix Weingartner in Basle and piano with Isabelle Vengerova in New York and taught and performed in Europe and the United States. Aaron Copland dedicated his song "Heart, We Will Forget Him" to her.^[1][2] She died in Ojai, California.^[3]

Works

Selected works include:

• Trois Images Slaves
• Impressions de Mer
• Senate pour Notre-Dame de Paris for orchestra
• Sonata for two pianos
• Musique pour orchestre
• Trilogue
• Incidences
• La cigale et la fourmi (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)
• La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)
• L'oiseau blessé d'une flèche (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)

References

1. ^ Riley, Matthew (2010). British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960. 
2. ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. 
3. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. 

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Name	Manziarly, Marcelle de
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Date of birth	1899
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Date of death	1989
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