French composer Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) is our featured composer today for WHM. Her Piano Trio No. 1 (from 1881) is today’s Midday Masterpiece. Born in Paris in 1857, Cécile Chaminade first took ...

French pianist and composer Cecile Chaminade toured the United States in 1908, greeted by adoring fans—many of whom were women—who were so inspired that they started Chaminade Clubs in their own towns ...

In Monte Carlo last week death came to the most famous woman composer who ever lived. Frail, white-haired, 86-year-old Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade had been bedridden with a bone disease for more ...

As a young girl, Cecile Chaminade experimented by writing piano compositions for her cats, dogs and dolls. She played her first concert at 18 and toured France and England. Her music was so popular in ...