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Victorine Louise Farrenc (23 February 1826 – 3 January 1859) was a French pianist and composer of the Romantic period.

Life and career

Victorine Louise Farrenc was born in Paris, France on 23 February 1826. A child prodigy in music, she was the daughter of composer-pianist Louise Farrenc and scholar Aristide Farrenc. In her youth she studied piano with her mother, Louise, and took compositions lessons, composing piano works.

In 1843, Farrenc enrolled in the Conservatoire de Paris for piano, and won the premier prix in 1844. She performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, the "Emperor" in the 1845 Brussels-Paris concerts, where her mother's Symphony No. 1 premiered. Her stage appearances lessened in 1847 after a serious illness; by 1849 she had ceased performing. She died on 3 January 1859 in Paris.

References

1. ^ Friedland, Bea (2001). "Farrenc, Victorine Louise". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380817. Retrieved 2 March 2024. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. ^ "Farrenc, Victorine". Kvinnlig Anhopning av Svenska Tonsättare [sv]. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
3. ^ Heitmann, Christin (2016) . "Farrenc: Victorine(-Louise)". MGG Online. Kassel: Bärenreiter. Retrieved 2 March 2024.

Further reading

• Allen, David (8 October 2021). "Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound". The New York Times.

External links

• Free scores by Victorine Farrenc at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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• 1859 deaths
• 19th-century French classical composers
• 19th-century French women classical pianists
• 19th-century French classical pianists
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• French Romantic composers
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