Louise Talma

Louise Juliette Talma (October 31, 1906 – August 13, 1996) 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.

Hommage to Women Composers - 2019-10-25T00:00:00.000000Z

2011 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA): Stephen F. Austin State University A Cappella Choir - 2012-11-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Music for Clarinet and Piano - 2011-01-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Talma, Sessions, Cowell & Lybbert: Piano Works - 2010-10-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Music of Talma, Fine, Perry, Daniels & Howe - 2010-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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