Marcelle Germaine Tailleferre

"Elasticity" (1912), oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, of the painter Umberto Boccioni, contemporary of Tailleferre (Collection Dr. Riccardo Jucker, Milan)

(1892-1983)

The composer Marcelle Germaine Tailleferre (Taillefesse) was born in Parc-St.-Maur on the 19th April 1892, the same year of the composers Abraham, Andriessen, Barlow, Bordewijk-Roepman, Castro, Coelho, Darwish, Deutsch, Ghedini, Glínski, Hemel, Honegger, Jarnach, Jeppesen, Jeremiás, Klein, Kvapil, Lajtha, Lourié, Milhaud, Moser, Petridis, Petyrek, Rosenberg, Roters. He died in Parigi on the 7th November 1983

project Tailleferre (Deeper articles)

Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Late Romanticism

OPERE

"Dolorès" has been represented in Parigi in 1950

"Il Était un petit navire" has been put on the stage in Parigi in March 1951

"Parisiana" has been represented in 1955 in Copenaghen

"La Petite sirène" was performed in 1958

"Mémoires d'un bergère" has been represented in 1959

"Le Maître" has been represented in 1959

LIEDER

"Souvent un air de vérité", published in 1929, text of Voltaire (1694-1778)

"L'adieu du cavalier", text of Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

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