Bonis (1858-1937) was a prolific French postromantic composer. She wrote more than 300 pieces, including works for piano solo and four hands, organ pieces, chamber music, mélodies, choral music, a mass, and works for orchestra. In the Conservatoire of Paris, Cesar Franck, the composer Ernest Guiraud and the organist Auguste Bazille were her teachers. Most of her compositions were published under the Pseudonym "Mel Bonis".
At the age of sixteen she began her studies at the prestigious Conservatoire, and attended the accompaniment, harmony and composition classes, where she shared the benches with Claude Debussy and Gabriel Pierné and received tuition from César Franck. Due to the difficulties encountered by women who wished to compose, she adopted the more androgynous form of her first name "Mel".
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