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Cécile Chaminade

Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)

Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman."

8 August 1857

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