Micheline Kahn


Micheline Kahn was a 20th-century French harpist and pianist.

Biography

Micheline Kahn was a pupil of Alphonse Hasselmans at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she obtained a prize for harp in 1904, at the age of 14. She worked with André Caplet to revise the score of Légende, Étude symphonique pour harpe chromatique et corde, after The Masque of the Red Death by Poe to make a version for diatonic harp. It was completed in 1923 as the . She was a professor at the École normale de musique de Paris and is the mother of composer Jean-Michel Damase.

Premieres and dedications

Micheline Kahn premiered numerous works including:
Kahn transcribed for the harp several pieces such as the Berceuse, Le Jardin de Dolly or the Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré.
In particular, she was the dedicatee of the Conte fantastique d'après le Masque de la Mort rouge d'Edgar Poë and of the two Divertissements by André Caplet.