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Talma, Louise

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Talma, Louise (1906-1996)

French-born US composer. Her music was typically neoclassical, later mixed with serialism, but always personal; she has been called ‘the dean of women composers’. Her works include the 1955-56 opera Alcestiad, based on a Thornton Wilder text.

Talma was born in Arachon, France. She studied in New York and with Nadia Boulanger in France and taught at Hunter College, New York, 1946-76.



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