Micheline Kahn
| Micheline Kahn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Magdeleine Micheline Kahn 3 August 1889 9th arrondissement of Paris |
| Died | 12 March 1987 (aged 97) 18th arrondissement of Paris |
| Occupation | Harpist Pianist |
Micheline Kahn (3 August 1889 – 12 March 1987) was a 20th-century French harpist and pianist.
Micheline Kahn was a pupil of Alphonse Hasselmans at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she obtained a prize for harp in 1904, at the age of 14. She worked with André Caplet to revise the score of Légende, Étude symphonique pour harpe chromatique et corde, after The Masque of the Red Death by Poe (1908) to make a version for diatonic harp. It will be the Conte fantastique in 1923. She was a professor at the École normale de musique de Paris and is the mother of composer Jean-Michel Damase.
Micheline Kahn premiered numerous works including:
Kahn transcribed for the harp several pieces such as the Berceuse, Le Jardin de Dolly or the Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré.
In particular, she was the dedicatee of the Conte fantastique d'après le Masque de la Mort rouge d'Edgar Poë and of the two Divertissements by André Caplet.
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