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
• La flûte de Jade, songs 1929
• 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