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Les Parisiennes - French Women Composers of the Long Nineteenth Century - Diana Ambache
Diana Ambache [+]
Musician and scholar
She was the first woman in Britain to found and direct her own classical orchestra, the Ambache Chamber Orchestra; they performed and recorded Mozart Piano Concertos and gave modern premières of works by female composers; http://www.ambache.co.uk/records.htm.
As a pianist she has given concerts, taught and lectured in over 30 countries on five continents. Teaching English as a foreign language has taken her to India, Laos, Myanmar and Peru.
Published in 2021, her first book: The Soul of the Journey is her account of the music and art inspired by the excursions of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn to Scotland and Italy. Cambridge University Press issued her Grażyna Bacewicz, the First Lady of Polish Music in 2022.
Description
Idealistic and patriotic songs, such as La Marseillaise, were the most widely known musical pieces. The motto liberté, égalité, fraternité was publicised by Robespierre in 1790. There were huge public spectacles; such as 8 June 1794 The Festival of the Supreme Being, in the Champs de Mars. The Paris Conservatoire was founded in 1796. The three most notable women of the time were pianist, composer and librettist Caroline Wuiet (1766-1835), who wrote Esope au bal de l'Opéra, ou Tout Paris en miniature in 1802; Julie Candeille (1767-1834), whose Catherine ou la Belle Fermière (1794) was one of the ten most performed dramatic works of 1793-1795; and pianist, composer and teacher Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836), who published piano works between 1795 and 1812.