Clementine de Bourges

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Clementine de Bourges (Unknown date, Lyon? - 30 September 1561, Lyon) was a French composery.

Accounts affirmed that Clementine mastered several instruments. However, biographical information about her life is scarce. [1] She is mostly known through her prolific compositions of classical music. [2] [1] She excelled in choral works and organic music. Mathematician and music writer Franz Gehring considered her compositions to be some of the most important of her time. [3] She died one year after her husband had died fighting against the Huguenots in 1560. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 McVicker, Mary Frech (2011). Women composers of classical music : 369 biographies from 1550 into the 20th century. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-4397-0. OCLC   630498292.
  2. ↑ Geiringer, Karl; Drinker, Sophie (March 1948). "Music and Women. The Story of Women in Their Relation to Music" . Notes. 5 (2): 234. doi:10.2307/891449. ISSN   0027-4380. JSTOR   891449.
  3. 1 2 Gehring, Franz (1900). "Bourges, Clementine de"  . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Vol. 1.8. p. 264.
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