L ete cecile chaminade biography
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Cécile Chaminade
French composer and pianist
Cécile Chaminade | |
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Portrait of Cécile Chaminade | |
| Born | (1857-08-08)8 August 1857 Paris, France |
| Died | 13 April 1944(1944-04-13) (aged 86) Monte Carlo |
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (8 August 1857 – 13 April 1944) was a French composer and pianist.[1] In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer.
Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman."[2]
Biography
Born in Batignolles[3] (a village then outside Paris), Chaminade was raised in a musical family.
She received her first piano lessons from her mother.[4] Around age 10, Chaminade was assessed by Félix Le Couppey of the Conservatoire de Paris, who recommended that she study music at the Conservatoire.[5] Her father forbade it because he believed it was improper for a girl of Chaminade's class.[5] Her father did