Hélène de Montgeroult
Hélène de Nervo de Montgeroult (2 March 1764 – 20 May 1836) was a French pianist and composer.
Career[]
She was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon and studied piano with and Jan Ladislav Dussek. She married the Marquis de Montgeroult who died as an Austrian prisoner in 1793.
Reportedly it was respect for her compositions that allowed her to survive the French Reign of Terror.[1] A set of improvisations on La Marseillaise, performed for the Committee of Public Safety, earned her her freedom after she was imprisoned in the Revolution due to her aristocratic background.[2] After her husband's death, Montgeroult took a position at the new Paris Conservatoire in 1795, the first female professor ever to be appointed there[3] and taught for two years. Afterwards she published two volumes of music.[4][5]
She died in Florence, Italy.
Published works[]
- Trois sonatas pour le forte-piano, Op. 1 (Paris, 1795).
- Trois sonatas pour le forte-piano (avec accompagnement de violon pour le 3e Sonate), Op. 2 (Paris, 1800; surviving edition 1803).
- Pièce pour le forte piano, Op. 3 (Paris, 1804).
- Fantaisies, nos. 1, 2, 3 [Op. 4?] (Paris, [1810?]).
- Trois sonatas pour le forte-piano, Op. 5 (Paris, 1811).
- Six nocturnes à voix seule avec accompagnement de piano-forte, Op. 6 (Paris, [by 1807].
- Cours complet pour l'enseignement du forte-piano, 3 vols (Paris, 1820). Contains 972 exercises and 114 études.
Selected recordings[]
- Hélène de Montgeroult, La Marquise et la Marseillaise, Éditions Hortus (CD, 2008).
- Études nos. 97, 110, etc., on Hélène de Montgeroult: A la source du piano romantique", Hortus (CD, 2009).
- Hélène de Montgeroult, Orchid Classics (CD, 2017).
References[]
- ^ Presto Classical
- ^ Jérôme Dorival, notes to Orchid Classics CD Hélène de Montgeroult (2017); "M comme Montgeroult", in Improvisation so piano, Jean-Pierre Thiollet (Magland: Neva Éditions, 2017), p 79–82. ISBN 978-2-35055-228-6
- ^ Dorival (2017)
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
- ^ Bowers, Jane; Tick, Judith (1987). Women making music: the Western art tradition, 1150-1950 (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). University of Illinois Press. p. 199. ISBN 9780252014703. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
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