Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (24 February 1884 - 2 August 1964) was a French

French people

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 composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Paris

Paris

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 and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux

Abel Decaux

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, Vincent d'Indy

Vincent d'Indy

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 and Maurice Emmanuel

Maurice Emmanuel

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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 Ecuador

Ecuador

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, Peru

Peru

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, Bolivia

Bolivia

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 and other countries in standard Europe

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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 language, Paris, PUF, 1956