Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt

composer

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1884

Place of Birth: 6th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 02-Aug-1964

Profession: composer, musicologist, music pedagogue, ethnomusicologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.She married ethnologist Raoul d'Harcourt and afterward researched South American and Canadian 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.
She died in Paris.