Micheline Kahn (3 August 1889 – 12 March 1987) was a 20th-century French harpist and pianist.

Micheline Kahn
Born
Magdeleine Micheline Kahn

3 August 1889
Died12 March 1987(1987-03-12) (aged 97)
Occupation(s)Harpist
Pianist

Biography

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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.[1] 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 was completed in 1923 as the Conte fantastique [fr]. She was a professor at the École normale de musique de Paris and is the mother of composer Jean-Michel Damase.

Premieres and dedications

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Micheline Kahn premiered numerous works including:[2]

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.

References

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  1. ^ Mlle Micheline Kahn / 1er prix de Harpe-Erard
  2. ^ Summary biography of Micheline Kahn on a site dedicated to André Caplet
  3. ^ Manuel Cornejo (2015). "Micheline Kahn et Introduction et Allegro de Maurice Ravel". Bulletin Association Internationale des Harpistes et Amis de la Harpe (Section Française) (in French). No. 52nd year. pp. 6–17.
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