Beatrice Siegrist
{{Short description|French composer, music educator and organist (born 1934)}}
Beatrice Houllier Siegrist (born 21 December 1934) is a French composer,{{Cite book |last=Hixon |first=Donald L. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156 |title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography |date=1993 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |others=Don A. Hennessee |isbn=0-8108-2769-7 |edition=2nd |location=Metuchen, N.J. |oclc=28889156}} music educator, and organist who is best known for winning an Honorable Mention for composition in the Prix de Rome and for her compositions for trombone.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC9LAAAAYAAJ&q=Beatrice+Houllier+Siegrist |title=Woodwind World-brass & Percussion |date=1977 |publisher=Evans Publications |language=en}}
Siegrist was born in Paris.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C6quo7Weh4AC&dq=beatrice+houllier+siegrist&pg=PA371 |title=Organ and Harpsichord Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog |date=1991 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-26802-1 |language=en}} She studied music at the Paris Conservatory and the Ecole Normale de Musique. After graduating, she taught solfege at the Toulouse Conservatory and several other schools in Paris and Toulouse. She also worked as an organist in Paris.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846 |title=International encyclopedia of women composers |date=1987 |isbn=0-9617485-2-4 |edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged |location=New York |oclc=16714846}}
Siegrist won an Honorable Mention in the Prix de Rome and first prize for counterpoint and fugue at the Ecole Normale de Musique. Her music is published by Editions Francaises de Musique and Editions Musicales Transatlantiques.{{Cite book |last=Office |first=Library of Congress Copyright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKbnAAAAMAAJ&q=Beatrice+Houllier+Siegrist |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |date=1968 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}} Her compositions include:
Chamber
- Le Plaisir du Tromboniste (piano and trombone; transcribed from cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach; revised by Camille Verdier)
- Variations on a Chorale by Martin Luther (unspecified winds){{Cite book |last=Boenke |first=H. Alais |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SD_z8JdtuSIC&dq=Beatrice+Houllier+Siegrist&pg=PA110 |title=Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog |date=1988 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-26019-3 |language=en}}
Vocal
- “Melodies” (text by Paul Fort)
- “Soleils Couchants” (text by Paul Verlaine)
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Category:French women composers
Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni
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