Louise Béguin-Salomon Explained

Louise Béguin-Salomon
Birth Name:Louise-Frédérique Cohen
Birth Date:9 April 1831
Birth Place:Marseille, France
Death Place:17th arrondissement of Paris, France

Louise Béguin-Salomon (9 April 1831 – 12 November 1916) was a French pianist and composer of the late Romantic period.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Life and career

Louise-Frédérique Cohen (dite Salomon) was born on 9 April 1831 in Marseille, France. She attended the Conservatoire de Paris beginning in July 1843.[1] She was a piano student of the composer and pianist Louise Farrenc, who taught at the Conservatoire.[1] While attending the Conservatoire, Béguin-Salomon won numerous prizes, including first prize for piano in 1851.[1] Béguin-Salomon was active as both a pianist and composer.[1] She composed numerous pieces for piano, including La Bal breton: Quadrille brillant et facile (1849), Mazurka de Salon (1875),[6] and Petite suite des pièces faciles dans le style classique (1894).[7] In addition, Béguin-Salomon arranged the Andante movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 1 for piano in 1853.[8] In his Biographie universelle des musiciens, François-Joseph Fétis described her as becoming "one of the best pianists in Paris, one of the artists most beloved by the public."[1] [9]

List of compositions

For Piano Solo

For Piano 4 Hands

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Fétis . François-Joseph . François-Joseph Fétis . 1866 . 2nd . . 1 . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=QwYVAAAAQAAJ}} Aaron—Bohrer ]. 64–65 . French . . Paris .
  2. Web site: Beguin, Louise . Composers - Classical - Music . 2 March 2024 .
  3. Wright . Josephine . Autumn 1990 . Violinist José White in Paris, 1855-1875 . . 10 . 2 . 213–232 [226] . 779386 . 10.2307/779386 .
  4. Encyclopedia: Mendel . Hermann . Hermann Mendel . Reissmann . August . 1883 . . [{{google books|plainurl=y|id=bfU5AAAAIAAJ}} Béguin-Salomon ]. 29 . German . Verlag von Robert Oppenheim . Berlin .
  5. Web site: Louise Béguin-Salomon . . 2 March 2024 .
  6. Web site: Béguin-Salomon . Louise (1831-19 ?) Compositeur . 1875 . Mazurka de salon pour piano par Mme Béguin Salomon. Op. 23 . 2024-03-05 . Gallica . EN.
  7. Book: Petite suite de pièces faciles dans le style classique : pour le piano, V : Allegretto . 1894 . Richault . Paris.
  8. Book: Andante du 1er Quatuor... transcrit et arrangé pour piano... . 1853 . s.n. . Louise Béguin-Salomon . Paris.
  9. Book: Andante du 1er Quatuor... transcrit et arrangé pour piano... . 1853 . s.n. . Louise Béguin-Salomon . Paris.

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