Flérida Lamarche de Nolasco (Flérida María Lamarche Henríquez; born in Santo Domingo on 27 February 1891; died 12 February 1976
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. She was a Professor of Folklore, Dominican literature and the History of Music at the

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, and was also noted for her musical ability. Her father, Manuel Lamarche, was of French descent, and her mother, Clotilde Henríquez y Carvajal, had Sephardic Dutch-Jewish ancestry. She married her cousin

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. She and her husband were niblings of

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and Federico Henríquez y Carvajal, and cousins of , Camila and

Pedro Henríquez Ureña Pedro Henríquez Ureña (June 29, 1884 – May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic. Biography Early works Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings. H ...

Works

*''Cultura Musical'', 1927 *''De música española y otros temas'', 1939 *''La música en Santo Domingo y otros Ensayos'', 1939 *''La Poesía Folklórica en Santo Domingo'', 1946 *''Existencia y Vicisitudes del Colegio Gorjón'', 1947 *''Cuadros del Evangelio'', 1947 *''Vibraciones en el Tiempo'', 1948, 1972 *''Días de la Colonia'', 1952 *''Rutas de Nuestra Poesía'', 1952 *''Santo Domingo en el Folklore Universal'', 1957 *''Grandes Momentos de la Historia de la Música'', 1957 *''

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a través de sus Obras'', 1959 *''El primer santuario de América'', 1961 *''

, Síntesis de su pensamiento'', 1966 *''Clamor de Justicia en la Española, 1502-1795'', 1971 *''Luminarias en Vela'', 1972 *''Mi Testimonio'', 1975

References

People from Santo Domingo 20th-century Dominican Republic historians Dominican Republic people of French descent Dominican Republic people of Dutch-Jewish descent Dominican Republic pianists Dominican Republic women pianists Dominican Republic music educators Dominican Republic women music educators Dominican Republic women writers Dominican Republic people of Spanish descent White Dominicans 1891 births 1976 deaths {{Caribbean-writer-stub