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.[1]
She married ethnologist Raoul d'Harcourt and afterward researched South American and Canadian[2] 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.[3] She died in Paris.
Works
Selected works include:
Fifty popular Indian Melodies, 1923
Raimi, or the Feast of the sun, ballet, 1926
3 Sonnets from the Renaissance, 1930
String Quartet, 1930
Three symphonic movements, 1932
Children in the pen, melodies, 1934–1935
Twenty-four Folk Songs of Old Quebec, 1936
Sonata Three, 1938
Dierdane, lyric drama, 1937–1941
Sonatine for flute and piano, 1946
The Seasons, 2nd symphony, 1951–1952
Writings with Raoul d'Harcourt include:
Music of the Incas and its survivals, Paris, P. Geuthner, 1925
French folk songs of Canada: their musical language, Paris, PUF, 1956
