Marie Blanche Selva, born on January 29, 1884, in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, was a pianist and composer. She began playing piano at age four and a half with private tutors, later joining the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation in Paris. In 1897, she gave her first public concert in Lausanne and Montreux. At sixteen, she met Vincent d'Indy, who became a mentor and appointed her as a piano professor at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where she taught from 1901 to 1922. During this period, she was instrumental in promoting French modern music, premiering works by Debussy, Ravel, and others. She premiered Isaac Albéniz's complete Suite Iberia between 1906 and 1909. In addition to her performing career, she authored a seven-volume work on piano technique, L'Enseignement musical de la Technique du Piano, published from 1916 to 1925. She left Barcelona in 1936 due to the Spanish Civil War and spent her final years severely ill with cancer in a hospital in Saint-Amant-Tallende, France, where she passed away on December 3, 1942.