Person · Female
Mel Bonis
French composer
- From
- Paris, France
- Active
- 1858–1937
- Releases
- 25
About
Mélanie Hélène "Mel" Bonis (21 January 1858 – 18 March 1937) was a prolific French late-Romantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. She attended the Paris Conservatoire, where her teachers included César Franck, Ernest Guiraud, and Auguste Bazille.
Discography
Albums
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Oeuvres pour piano
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French Flute Sonatas
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Piano Quartets: no. 1 B-flat major, op. 64 / no. 2 D major, op. 124
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La Joueuse de flûte
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La Cathédrale blessée: Piano works
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Femmes de légende : Œuvres pour piano
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Le songe de Cléopâtre
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Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet N° 1, op. 15 / Mel Bonis: Piano Quartet N° 1, op. 69
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Soir et matin
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The Music of Mel Bonis
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It’s a Girl!
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Mémoires d’une femme
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Paris 1900: The Art of the Flute
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Poétesses symphoniques
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Femmes de légende
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Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume One
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Complete Music for Flute & Piano
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Avec elles
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Ravel · Mel Bonis
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Chamber Music
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La mer: French Piano Trios
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Art nouveau: French Chamber Music Around 1900
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Orchestral Works
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Quatuors
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3 Sonates
Links
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Also known as
Mélanie Bonis · Mélanie Hélène Bonis
Tags
- composer
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- f5fc67fc-acdc-477b-a4e8-daa018d41856
- ISNI
- 0000000121039906
- ISNI
- 0000000368636155
- IPI
- 00003652321
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 9 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.