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Augusta Holmès
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Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (18 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent. At first she published under the pseudonym Hermann Zenta. Holmès was born in Paris. Despite showing talent at the piano, she was not allowed to study at the Paris Conservatoire, but she took lessons privately. She developed her piano playing under the tutelage of local pianist Mademoiselle Peyronnet, Versailles' cathedral organist Henri Lambert, and Hyacinthe Klosé. Also, she showed some of her earlier compositions to Franz Liszt. Around 1876, she became a pupil of César Franck, whom she considered her real master. (She led the group of Franck's students who in 1891 commissioned for Franck's tomb a bronze medallion from Auguste Rodin.) Camille Saint-Saëns wrote of Holmès in the journal Harmonie et Mélodie, "Like children, women have no idea of obstacles, and their willpower breaks all barriers. Mademoiselle Holmès is a woman, an extremist." Holmès never married, but she cohabited with the poet Catulle Mendès; the couple had five children. For the 1889 celebration of the centennial of the French Revolution, Holmès was commissioned to write the Ode Triomphale for the Exposition Universelle, a work requiring about 1200 musicians. She gained a reputation of being a composer of programme music with political meaning, such as her symphonic poems Irlande and Pologne. Holmès bequeathed most of her musical manuscripts to the Paris Conservatoire. User-contributed text is availabl
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La nuit et l'amour Variation (After Ludus pro patria: II. La nuit et l'amour) [Arr. for Cello, Violin & Piano by Jan-Peter Klöpfel]
1,4752Andromede
1,4033Ludus pro Patria, La Nuit et l'Amour: La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique - Ludus pro Patria
8154Trois petites pièces: Chanson
8045La Nuit et l'Amour: Interlude de l'ode symphonique - Ludus pro Patria
6406Ludus pro patria, II. La nuit et l'amour
4517Trois petites pièces: Gigue
4128Trois petites pièces: Clair de Lune
2959Ludus pro Patria: La Nuit et l'Amour
14710Noël (Trois Anges Sont Venus Ce Soir)
132albums
Holmes, A.: Orchestral Works
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La nuit et l'amour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic Poems
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Holmès: Orchestral Works
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Noël (Trois Anges Sont Venus Ce Soir)
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Holmès: Symphonic Poems
L'indomptable
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Holmès: Paysages d'amour: III. Au bois dormant
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Trois anges sont venus ce soir
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Trois petites pièces for Flute and Piano
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Compositrices à l'aube du XXe siècle
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Ludus pro patria