Paule Charlotte Marie Jeanne Maurice was a French composer.
Elsa Jacqueline Barraine was a composer of French music in the time after the neoclassicist movement of Les Six, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Despite being considered “one of the outstanding French composers of the mid-20th century,” Barraine's music is seldom performed today. She won the Prix de Rome in 1929 for La vierge guerrière, a sacred trilogy named for Joan of Arc, and was the fourth woman ever to receive that prestigious award.
Gaziza Akhmetkyzy Zhubanova was a Soviet and Kazakh composer and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1981).
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux was a Belgian composer.
Claire Renard is a French composer and multimedia artist.
Kimi Sato is a Japanese composer.
Natela Svanidze was a Georgian composer.
Mme. Delaval or Madame De La Valle, birthname Adélaïde-Suzanne-Camille Larrivée, was a French harpist, pianist and composer. Delaval was born in Paris, France to opera singers Henri Larrivée and Marie-Jeanne Larrivée Lemière. She had one sister, Agathe-Elisabeth-Henriette, who was given violin lessons while Adelaide focused on the harp. Both girls were students of Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz. When their parents separated in 1767, the girls provided for their guardian and aunt, Elisabeth-Henriette Larrivée, by touring through French provinces in concerts.
Louise Augusta Marie Julia Haenel de Cronenthall was a German composer who lived and worked in France.
Helene Karastoyanova is a Bulgarian composer.
Anna Maria Klechniowska was a Polish music educator and composer. She was born in Borowka, Ukraine, and studied at the Warsaw and Lemberg (Lviv) Conservatories, and then in Leipzig and Paris. She graduated from the Vienna Academy in 1917, after studying with Lech Jaczynowski, Gustaw Roguski, Mieczyslaw Soltys, Josef Pembaur, Stanisław Niewiadomski, Stephan Krehl, Klara Czop-Umlauf, Franz Schmidt and Nadia Boulanger. After completing her studies, she worked as a teacher and arts administrator. She died in Warsaw.
Zhivka Klinkova was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.
Tatyana Alexeyevna Chudova was a Russian composer.
Marie-Marguerite-Denise Canal, also known as Marguerite Canal, was a French conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Toulouse into a musical family, and her father introduced her to music and poetry. She studied singing and piano at the Paris Conservatoire in 1911, and after completing her work there, became a teacher at the Conservatoire.
Monic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella is a French pianist, music educator and composer.
Adrienne Clostre was a French composer. She was born in Thomery, Seine-et-Marne, and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Yves Nat, Darius Milhaud, Jean Rivier and Olivier Messiaen.
Nini Bulterijs was a Belgian composer. She was born in Temse, East Flanders, and studied piano with Jozef d'Hooghe and harmony with Yvonne van den Berghe at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp. She continued her studies in composition with Jean Louel privately and with Jean Absil at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth.
Gisèle Barreau is a French composer.
Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt 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.
Francis Bousquet was a French composer. Educated at the Conservatoire de Paris, he won the Prix de Rome in 1923. His compositions included three operas, a ballet, and several symphonic and chamber music works. From 1926 until his death he was also the director of Conservatoire de Roubaix. Bousquet was born in Marseille and died in Roubaix at the age of 52. He had been awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1934.
