LEONORA D'ESTE - ITALY
BORN 4 JULY
Eleonora d'Este was a Ferrarese noblewoman. She was the first daughter of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and his second wife Lucrezia Borgia - as his first daughter, Alfonso named her after his mother Eleanor of Naples.
She was brought up in Ferrara and her mother died when she was four - her father had two more children with Laura Dianti. Eleonora was the only one of Alfonso and Lucrezia's daughters to survive both their parents. She became a nun at the Corpus Domini Monastery and was buried there alongside her mother and other members of her family.
In 1543, Girolamo Scotto of Venice published a collection of 43 religious motets under the title Musica quinque vocum motetta materna lingua vocata. There is no indication in that publication as to who the composer might have been.
Laurie Stras, professor of music at Southampton University, has argued that Leonora may have been the composer. Leonora was triply disqualified from being named in those days: being a woman, and a princess, and a nun.
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Musica quinque vocum : Iste est Johannes(Attrib. to Leonora d'Este)
Musica quinque vocum : Iste est Johannes(Attrib. to Leonora d'Este)
MARIE-VÉRA MAIXANDEAU - FRANCE
BORN 4 JULY
Marie-Véra Maixandeau was a French composer and organist.
Marie learned organ, counterpoint and harmony with Émile Bourdon, organist at Monaco Cathedral, and Alfredo Wyld. From the age of 12, she composed and performed (at the piano) in concerts, and is considered by her teachers and critics of the time as a very talented child, especially for composition. Confident in her abilities, her master Emile Bourdon made sure to introduce her to Marcel Dupré and André Marchal, organists to whom she visited in Paris in March 1944, aged 14: St Sulpice for the first, and St Germain des Prés for the second.
At the age of 16, she was sent to Paris to join the Conservatoire National de Paris, where she studied from October 1945 to June 1951, in the class of Jean Gallon, Noël Gallon, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951, she won the first prize for composition for her concerto for piano and orchestra, in Tony Aubin's class.
In 1957, at the age of 28, Marie-Véra discovered her vocation. She then entered the convent of Our Lady of Life in Venasque, but came out some time later. She regularly retired to Notre-Dame du Laus or the convent of Évry Petit-Bourg, at the house of the nuns of Notre-Dame de Sion, then committed to the Auxiliary of the Heart of Jesus. It is part of the current of the charismatic renewal. In the early 1980s, she became a consecrated virgin.
Since the 1960s she taught at the National Institute of Young Blind, in Paris, as a teacher of piano and solfège.
She regularly performed as an organist, notably at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Church in Paris or at Monaco Cathedral, where she replaces Bourdon. She finished her life holding the chapel of the hospital Lariboisière.
Marie-Véra Maixandeau was a French composer and organist.
Marie learned organ, counterpoint and harmony with Émile Bourdon, organist at Monaco Cathedral, and Alfredo Wyld. From the age of 12, she composed and performed (at the piano) in concerts, and is considered by her teachers and critics of the time as a very talented child, especially for composition. Confident in her abilities, her master Emile Bourdon made sure to introduce her to Marcel Dupré and André Marchal, organists to whom she visited in Paris in March 1944, aged 14: St Sulpice for the first, and St Germain des Prés for the second.
At the age of 16, she was sent to Paris to join the Conservatoire National de Paris, where she studied from October 1945 to June 1951, in the class of Jean Gallon, Noël Gallon, Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1951, she won the first prize for composition for her concerto for piano and orchestra, in Tony Aubin's class.
In 1957, at the age of 28, Marie-Véra discovered her vocation. She then entered the convent of Our Lady of Life in Venasque, but came out some time later. She regularly retired to Notre-Dame du Laus or the convent of Évry Petit-Bourg, at the house of the nuns of Notre-Dame de Sion, then committed to the Auxiliary of the Heart of Jesus. It is part of the current of the charismatic renewal. In the early 1980s, she became a consecrated virgin.
Since the 1960s she taught at the National Institute of Young Blind, in Paris, as a teacher of piano and solfège.
She regularly performed as an organist, notably at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Church in Paris or at Monaco Cathedral, where she replaces Bourdon. She finished her life holding the chapel of the hospital Lariboisière.
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