| Victorine Farrenc | |
| Birth Name: | Victorine Louise Farrenc |
| Birth Date: | 23 February 1826 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
Victorine Louise Farrenc (23 February 1826 – 3 January 1859) was a French pianist and composer of the Romantic period.[1] [2]
Victorine Louise Farrenc was born in Paris, France on 23 February 1826.[1] A child prodigy in music, she was the daughter of composer-pianist Louise Farrenc and scholar Aristide Farrenc.[1] [2] In her youth she studied piano with her mother, Louise, and took compositions lessons, composing piano works.[3]
In 1843, Farrenc enrolled in the Conservatoire de Paris for piano, and won the premier prix.[1] She performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, the "Emperor" in the 1845 Brussels-Paris concerts, where her mother's Symphony No. 1 premiered.[1] Her stage appearances lessened in 1847 after a serious illness; by 1849 she had ceased performing.[3] She died on 3 January 1859 in Paris.[1]