Betsy Jolas

Betsy Jolas (born 5 August 1926) is a French composer and a foremost composer of her nation since World War II, although the reach of her music is international. Her music is often intense in its lyricism and nearly always referential of poetry and feeling. It eschews both serialism in its pre-war forms but includes musical sets and tonal analogues. Because it is not historicist, the music does not align with much post-modernism but instead finds wholly individual impetus.