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Hélène de Nervo de Montgeroult (2 March 1764 – 20 May 1836) was a French pianist and composer.

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Career

She was born into an aristocratic family in Lyon and studied piano with Nicolas-Joseph Hüllmandel [fr] and Jan Ladislav Dussek. She married the Marquis de Montgeroult who died as an Austrian prisoner in 1793.

Reportedly it was respect for her compositions that allowed her to survive the French Reign of Terror.[1] A set of improvisations on La Marseillaise, performed for the Committee of Public Safety, earned de Montgeroult her freedom after she was imprisoned in the Revolution due to her aristocratic background.[2] After her husband's death, Montgeroult took a position at the new Paris Conservatoire in 1795, the first female professor ever to be appointed there[3] and taught for two years. Afterwards she published two volumes of music.[4][5]

She died in Florence, Italy.

Legacy

Her life and musical works were reviewed on the BBC Radio 3 series Composer of the Week on 11-15 July 2022. Donald Macleod presented the programmes with recordings, some of them specially commissioned, alongside contributions by the pianist Clare Hammond.[6]

Published works

• Trois sonatas pour le forte-piano, Op. 1 (Paris, 1795).
• Trois sonatas pour le forte-piano (avec accompagnement de violon pour le 3e Sonate), Op. 2 (Paris, 1800; surviving edition 1803).
• Pièce pour le forte piano, Op. 3 (Paris, 1804).
• Fantaisies, nos. 1, 2, 3 [Op. 4?] (Paris, [1810?]).
• Trois sonatas pour le forte-piano, Op. 5 (Paris, 1811).
• Six nocturnes à voix seule avec accompagnement de piano-forte, Op. 6 (Paris, [by 1807].
• Cours complet pour l'enseignement du forte-piano, 3 vols (Paris, 1820). Contains 972 exercises and 114 études.

Selected recordings

• Hélène de Montgeroult, La Marquise et la Marseillaise, Éditions Hortus (CD, 2008).
• Études nos. 97, 110, etc., on Hélène de Montgeroult: A la source du piano romantique", Hortus (CD, 2009).
• Hélène de Montgeroult, Orchid Classics (CD, 2017).
• Hélène de Montgeroult : The Complete Piano Sonatas, Naxos – Grand Piano Records (2CD, 2021).

References

External links

• Free scores by Hélène de Montgeroult at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

На других языках

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[de] Hélène de Montgeroult

Hélène (Antoinette Maria) de Montgeroult, geb. de Nervo (* 2. März 1764 in Lyon; † 20. Mai 1836 in Florenz) war eine französische Pianistin und Komponistin und die erste Professorin für Klavier bei der Neugründung des Conservatoire de Paris 1795.[1]

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- [en] Hélène de Montgeroult

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[es] Hélène de Montgeroult

Hélène Nervo de Montgeroult, condesa de Charnay (Lyon, 2 de marzo de 1764 - Florencia, 20 de mayo de 1836) fue una pianista, maestra y compositora francesa del periodo clásico; contemporánea de Mozart, Beethoven y Haydn. Vivió durante la Revolución francesa y fue la primera maestra de pianoforte del Conservatorio de París, participando en la transición del auge del clavecín al piano.[1]

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