Mélanie Bonis

Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis (b. 4th arrondissement of Paris, 21 January 1858 – d. Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise), 18 March 1937) was a prolific French classical composer. She wrote more than 300 compositions, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. The organist Auguste Bazille was one of her teachers.

She was born in parisian lower-middle-class family and was educated according to the strict norms of the catholic morality of the time. Of great talent and musical sensitivity she taught herself the piano. At the age of sixteen began her studies in the prestigious Conservatoire. She attended the accompaniment, harmony and composition classes, sharing the benches with Claude Debussy and Gabriel Pierné.

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