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Elsa Barraine

Elsa Barraine

Born: 13th February 1910, Paris, France

Died: 20th March 1999, Strasbourg, France

Nationality: French

Elsa Jacqueline Barraine was a composer of French music in the time after the neoclassicist movement of Les Six, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Despite being considered “one of the outstanding French composers of the mid-20th century,” Barraine's music is seldom performed today. She won the Prix de Rome in 1929 for La vierge guerrière, a sacred trilogy named for Joan of Arc, and was the fourth woman ever to receive that prestigious award (after Lili Boulanger in 1913, Marguerite Canal in 1920, and Jeanne Leleu in 1923).

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  • Cristian Măcelaru on Elsa Barraine

    2nd Apr 2026by Katherine Cooper

    The Romanian conductor discusses the remarkable legacy of 'one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century French cultural life', whose symphonies he recently recorded with the Orchestre National de France for Warner Classics.

    Classical Interview

  • Symphonic works by Elsa Barraine

    20th Feb 2026by David Smith

    Two symphonies and a pair of pictorial tone-poems show the long-neglected twentieth-century French composer at her finest, with a musical language drawing on both watercolour Impressionism and bold modernism.

    Classical Recording of the Week

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