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3 unusual facts about Irène Deliège


Irène Deliège

Shortly after graduating she began to attend the courses music writing and harmony given by Profressor Andre Souris at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and as a result was invited to attend the Summer School for New Music in Darmstadt (Darmstädter Ferienkurse), where she met the Belgian musicologist Celestin Deliege, whom she married in 1954.

She is noted for her theory of Cue Abstraction, and for her work in establishing The European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.

In 1991 she was elected first Permanent Secretary of the newly founded European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM).



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