Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt
French composer (1884–1964) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.