Laffaire tailleferre biography

          Germaine Marcelle Tailleferre was born on the 19th April in Parc Saint-Maur, just outside of Paris....

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          Germaine Tailleferre,famously one of the members of “Les Six,” was born outside of Parisand began her musical studies at an early age studying piano with her mother and composing an opera at 8-years-old.

          This work thus offers to rediscover several centuries of music pastiched by Germaine Tailleferre, the only woman in the Group of Six. To accompany this show.

        1. Le Maître est un opéra de chambre composé par Germaine Tailleferre en sur un texte d'Eugène Ionesco.
        2. Germaine Marcelle Tailleferre was born on the 19th April in Parc Saint-Maur, just outside of Paris.
        3. Germaine Tailleferre was a noted French composer who was the only female member of the famed musical group 'Les Six'.
        4. La Petite Sirène est un opéra de chambre radiophonique en trois actes de Germaine Tailleferre sur un livret de Philippe Soupault d'après le conte La Petite.

          5. By the age of 12 she was studying at the Paris Conservatory, where she was a piano prodigy and won prizes in counterpoint and harmony. At the conservatory, she met Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, and Arthur Honegger for the first time and later became friends with Maurice Ravel.

          Disapproving of her musical studies, Tailleferre’s father sent her away to a Catholic school and by the time she was 14 he disowned her and she was forced to support herself by teaching private music lessons.

          Tailleferre’s circle of friends expanded to include composers and intellectuals including Erik Satie, who heard her play her composition for 2 pianos and declared her his “musical daughter.” Tailleferre officially became a member of