Marie-Elizabeth Cléry

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Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (or Duverge-Cléry ), née Du Verger or Du Verge (* 1761 , † after 1795 ), was a French harpist and composer.

Life

She was probably born in Paris and was a harpist at the court of Marie Antoinette . After her marriage to Jean-Baptiste Cant-Hanet dit Cléry, she published three sonatas for violin with harp accompaniment in 1785.

Works

  • Trois sonates pour harpe ou piano-forte avec accompagnement de violon ; edited by Barbara Garvey Jackson. ClarNan Editions, Arkansas, 1988. Sonata 1 in C major, Sonata 2 in E major, Sonata 3 in B ♭ major

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ClarNan Editions: Historic Music by Women Composers . Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel: The Norton / Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online from GoogleBooks) 1994 (Retrieved January 19, 2011).
  3. ^ Stanley Sadie, John Tyrrell: The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 6 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Cléry, Marie-Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer and harpist
DATE OF BIRTH 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH after 1795