Louise Talma
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Louise Juliette Talma (October 31, 1906 ā August 13, 1996)[citation needed] was an American composer, academic, and pianist. After studies in New York and in France, piano with Isidor Philipp and composition with Nadia Boulanger, she focused on composition from 1935. She taught at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, and at Hunter College. Her opera The Alcestiad was the first full-scale opera by an American woman staged in Europe. She was the first woman in the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the first woman awarded the Sibelius Medal for Composition.
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Born | Louise Juliette Talma (1906-10-31)October 31, 1906 Arcachon, France |
Died | August 31, 1996(1996-08-31) (aged 89) |
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