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 2026
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.
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Symphonic works by Elsa Barraine
20th Feb 2026
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.
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