{{Short description|French pianist, music educator and composer (1936–2025)}} '''Monic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella''' (30 September 1936 – 28 December 2025) was a French pianist, music educator and composer.
==Life and career== Cecconi-Botella was born in Courbevoie on 30 September 1936. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Maurice Duruflé, Jean Rivier and Henri Dutilleux. After completing her studies, she worked as a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire of Aubervilliers. In 1983, she became a professor of music analysis at the Conservatoire de Paris.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&q=Monic+Cecconi-Botella+Maurice&pg=PA112|title=The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|page=112|isbn=9780393034875}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog|author=Boenke, Heidi M.|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=1988|isbn=0313368317}}</ref>
In 1966, Cecconi-Botella won a First at the Prix de Rome.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women Born after 1900|author=Dees, Pamela Youngdahl|publisher=Greenwood Press|orig-year=2002|year=2004|isbn=0313319901|issn=0736-7740}}</ref> Her opera ''Noctuaile'' won a Grand Prix du Disque. In 2008, she founded the Festival Seasons of the Voice in Gordes, Provence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moniccecconibotella.fr|title=Monic Cecconi-Botella|accessdate=20 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721012139/http://www.moniccecconibotella.fr/|archive-date=21 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Cecconi-Botella died on 28 December 2025, at the age of 89.<ref>[https://www.forumopera.com/breve/mort-de-la-compositrice-monic-cecconi-botella/ "Mort de la compositrice Monic Cecconi-Botella"]. ''forumopera.com'', 6 January 2026 (in French). Retrieved 7 January 2026.</ref>
==Works== Cecconi-Botella explored multi-media arts in her compositions. Selected works include: *''Bucolique'' for flute and piano *''Cérémonie'' for viola and piano *''Noctuaile'' opera in two parts, libretto by René David *''He Signed Vincent'' (about the life of Vincent van Gogh) *''The Woman of the Ogre'', opera, book by Pierrette Fleutiaux *''Operaclown'', children's opera, libretto by René Pillot *''Pirlipipi'', children's opera, libretto by Pierre Gripari *''Triangle Crystal'', children's opera, book by Françoise Arquetout
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==Further reading== * {{cite book|last=Andrieux|first=Françoise|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|edition=2nd|editor-last1=Sadie|editor-first1=Stanley|editor-link1=Stanley Sadie|editor-last2=Tyrrell|editor-first2=John|editor-link2=John Tyrrell (musicologist)|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|orig-year=1980|year=2001|isbn=0333231112}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721012139/http://www.moniccecconibotella.fr/ Monic Cecconi-Botella website]
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