conductor Roger Désormière, Les Six member Louis Durey, and Barraine together released a “manifesto for ‘the defence of French music’ and against any collaboration with the Nazis.” Her heavy involvement in the Resistance was particularly brave, considering the fact that she seems to have had a Jewish background. Notes References Cited sources Briscoe, James R. New Historical Anthology of Music by Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Germain-David, Pierrette. “Une compositrices, actrice du XXème siècle, Elsa Barraine (1910-1999).” Association Femmes et Musique, Paris. https://web.archive.org/web/20130830060750/http://femmesetmusique.com/actualite.html (accessed Nov. 9, 2012). Grove Music Online, S.v. “Barraine, Elsa,” by Françoise Andrieux and James R. Briscoe. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/02102 (accessed Nov. 9, 2012). Pendle, Karin. Women and Music. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994. Simeone, Nigel. “Making Music in Occupied Paris.” The Musical Times 147, no. 1894 (Spring 2006), https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434357 (accessed Nov. 9, 2012). Additional sources Bourin, Odile, and Pierrette Germain-David. Elsa Barraine (1910-1999): une compositrice au XXe siècle. Sampzon: Editions Delatour France, 2010. Moulder, Earline. “Jewish Themes in Elsa Barraine’s Second Prelude and Fugue for Organ.” Women of Note Quarterly: The Magazine of Historical and Contemporary Women Composers 3, no. 3 (Aug. 1995): 22-29, 31. Moulder, Earline. “Rediscovering the Organ Works of Elsa Barraine.” Women of Note Quarterly: The Magazine of Historical and Contemporary Women Composers 3, no. 2 (May 1995): 21-29. Ripley, Colette S. “Organ Music by French Women Composers.” American Organist Magazine 28 (Nov. 1994): 56-61. External links Works list from Grove Music Online http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article_works/grove/music/02102#S02102.1 YouTube recording of Symphony No. 2, performed by the ORTF Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manuel Rosenthal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPnUkjjfpp0 Catalogue of resources pertaining to Barraine in the Bibliothèque nationale de France https://data.bnf.fr/fr/14020314/elsa_barraine/ 1910 births 1999 deaths Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Conservatoire de Paris alumni French classical composers French women classical composers Prix de Rome for composition Musicians from Paris 20th-century classical composers 20th-century French women musicians 20th-century French composers Women music educators 20th-century women composers