Original: Born Marcelle Taillefesse at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France, as a young woman she changed her last name to "Tailleferre" to spite her father who had refused to support her musical studies.
Simplified: When she was grown up she changed her last name to "Tailleferre" just to annoy her father because he had refused to let her study music.