Germaine Tailleferre

Of significance as the sole female member of the post-World War I group of French composers known as Les Six, Germaine Tailleferre remained a prominent-if somewhat inaccessible--musician long after the disintegration of that group during the mid-/late-1920s, and she left behind, at her death in 1983 at the age of ninety-one, an extensive body of work representing almost seventy years of active composition. Tailleferre was born to a family living in the outskirts of Paris on April 19, 1892. Despite having exposed young Germaine to music from an early age, Tailleferre's parent...