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William Alwyn
William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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Nicholas Maw
Nicholas Maw
British composer
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
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Ingvar Lidholm
Ingvar Lidholm
Swedish composer
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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Robert Ward
Robert Ward
American composer
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Nicolas Flagello
Nicolas Flagello
American composer
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Hendrik Andriessen
Hendrik Andriessen
Dutch composer, organist and music educator
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Camargo Guarnieri
Camargo Guarnieri
Brazilian composer
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Stefans Grové
Stefans Grové
South African composer
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz
Polish composer, violinist
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Edison Denisov
Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Marcel Mihalovici
Marcel Mihalovici
French composer
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Robert Casadesus
Robert Casadesus
French pianist and composer
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Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem
American composer
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
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Lili Boulanger
Lili Boulanger
French composer
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Libby Larsen
Libby Larsen
American composer and educator
Louise Talma
American composer

Louise Talma

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American composer
Genres
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Music
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Letters

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 women in the National Institute of Arts and Letters and being awarded the Sibelius Medal for Composition.