Augusta Holmès
Country of origin:
France
Birthday:
December 18, 1847
Date of death:
January 28, 1903
About Augusta Holmès
Holmès was born in Paris. Despite showing talent at the piano, she was not allowed to study at the Paris Conservatoire, but 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.[2] (She led the group of Franck's students who in 1891 commissioned for Franck's tomb a bronze medallion from Auguste Rodin.[3]) 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." Like other female composers from the nineteenth century, Holmès published some of her earlier works under a male pseudonym ("Hermann Zenta"). 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 1,200 musicians. She gained a reputation of being a composer of programme music with political meaning, such as her symphonic poems Irlande and Pologne.Products
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for orchestraComposer: Augusta HolmèsEditor: Anastasia BelinaMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: orchestra
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for orchestraComposer: Augusta HolmèsEditor: Anastasia BelinaMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: orchestra
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Composer: Augusta HolmèsEditor: Edmund Waechter | Elisabeth WeinzierlMedia Type: E-score PDFInstrumentation: flute and pianoProduct number: ED 21579 Q19411In stock€3.99Incl. Tax
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Symphony after AriostoComposer: Augusta HolmèsMedia Type: Hire/performance materialEdition: Performance materialInstrumentation: orchestra