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Arts and CultureAge Group:
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For a few decades at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Cecile Chaminade(1857-1944) was one of the most popular pianists. She was also amongst the most prolific female composers in music history. Her success and popularity were so great that she was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur, the first woman composer to achieve this honor.
The 1970 “Oxford Companion to Music “ describes her music quite favorably:
“She is known to most people as a writer of tuneful and graceful short piano compositions, with no intricacy of texture, no elaboration of form and no depth of feeling, but pleasant to hear and to play, and so tasteful in conception and execution as to disarm the highbrow critic.”
Jeffrey Engel will detail her life and play recordings of her music.
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