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:

• 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 language, Paris, PUF, 1956

References

1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=Marguerite+B%C3%A9clard+d'Harcourt+(1884%E2%80%931964)&source=bl&ots=iHytzPKyr8&sig=LmoFioJaLVc9g1r1Sy0_Iw51JiA&hl=en&ei=fQ0_TeuUH43VgAfP-7DeCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 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. 

Persondata
Name	Dharcourt, Marguerite Beclard
Alternative names
Short description	Composer
Date of birth	24 February 1884
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	2 August 1964
Place of death	Paris, France