Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983) was a French composer, and the only woman in the ragtag (by their own description) group of avant-garde composers known as Les Six. The group met at the Conservatoire de Paris, where Tailleferre’s early compositions received a slew of awards, and they all worked and collaborated in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris. The majority of her best-known works came from the 1920s, despite the interference of her brief first marriage (during which she was living in New York City and barely composed). Tailleferre was far from done after this, however; outside of one more interruption when she fled the Nazi invasion of France and had to leave most of her work behind until her return in 1946, she continued to write music for her entire life, only putting down her pen for good a few weeks before her death.