Marcelle de Manziarly was a French

French people

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 pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. She was born in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

, studied in Paris

Paris

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 with Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...

 and at the age of 23 had already composed two mature works. She later studied conducting with Felix Weingartner

Felix Weingartner

Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...

 in Basle and piano with Isabelle Vengerova

Isabelle Vengerova

Isabelle Vengerova was a Russian, later American, pianist and music teacherShe was born Izabella Afanasyevna Vengerova , in Minsk . Her elder brother Semyon Vengerov was a venerable literary historian...

 in New York

New York

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 and taught and performed in Europe and the United States. Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

 dedicated his song "Heart, We Will Forget Him" to her. She died in Ojai, California

California

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Works

Selected works include:

• Trois Images Slaves
• Impressions de Mer
• Senate pour Notre-Dame de Paris for orchestra
• Sonata for two pianos
• Musique pour orchestre
• Trilogue
• Incidences
• La cigale et la fourmi (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)
• La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)
• L'oiseau blessé d'une flèche (in Trois Fables de La Fontaine) (Text: Jean de La Fontaine)