Louise Geneviève de La Hye née Rousseau (7 March 1807 - 18 November 1838) was a French pianist, organist and composer, who sometimes used the pseudonym M. Leon Saint-Amans.

Life and career

Louise Geneviève Rousseau was born in Charenton, France, on March 7th, 1807.[1] She was the daughter of Marie-Anne Noblot and of the musician Charles-Louis Rousseau, therefore the grand niece of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.[2] She studied piano with her father and with Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, and in 1821 entered the Paris Conservatory.[3]

Rousseau began teaching at the Conservatory in 1830, but moved to Cambrai after she married with the marquis Chaumont de la Hye. She had two children and returned to Paris in 1834 where she continued teaching and composing. She suffered from poor health[4] and died in Paris at the age of 31.[5]

Works

La Hye composed works including an opera, cantatas, masses, piano works, duos and string quartets. Selected compositions include:

  • Le songe de la religieuse[6]
  • Six mélodies italiennes[7]

Her Méthode d'orgue expressif was published after her death, en 1839.[8]

Romances

  • Le Corsaire rouge !, lyrics by M. de la Hye[9]
  • Chant du crépuscule, lyrics by Victor Hugo, in La Gazette des salons, 1835[10]
  • Élégie dramatique, in La Gazette des salons, 1 January 1836[11]
  • Je suis maudit !, lyrics by Félix Servan, 1836[12]
  • Je l'ai tué !,[13] lyrics by M. de la Hye, in La Gazette des salons, 25 December 1836[14]
  • Ne me plains pas, lyrics by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, in La Gazette des salons, #74, 1836[15]

References

  1. ↑ "État civil de 1807. Acte de naissance n° 10". Archives départementales du Val-de-Marne (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  2. ↑ Fétis, François-Joseph (1881). Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique: Supplément et complément (in French). Firmin-Didot. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  3. ↑ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: a checklist of works for the solo voice.
  4. ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Acte de décès reconstitué". Archives de Paris (in French). p. 34/50. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  6. ↑ Fétis, François-Joseph (1881). Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique: Supplément et complément (in French). Firmin-Didot. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  7. ↑ La Hye, Luisa de. "Sei Mélodie, tratte dall' Esule, di P. Giannone, con accompagnements di cembalo". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  8. ↑ La Hye, L.e de (1839). "Méthode théorique et pratique pour l'orgue expressif suivie d'un choix de morceaux de différents caractères, oeuvre posthume". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  9. ↑ La Hye (Mme de). "Le Corsaire rouge ! Musique de Mme de La Hye". Gallica (in French). Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  10. ↑ "Gazette des salons : journal des modes et de musique, artistique, littéraire et théâtral". Gallica (in French). 1835. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  11. ↑ "Gazette des salons : journal des modes et de musique, artistique, littéraire et théâtral". Gallica (in French). 1836-01-01. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  12. ↑ "Gazette des salons : journal des modes et de musique, artistique, littéraire et théâtral". Gallica (in French). 1836. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  13. ↑ Je l'ai tué ! Romance dramatique par Mme de La Hye. Aulagnier. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  14. ↑ "Gazette des salons : journal des modes et de musique, artistique, littéraire et théâtral". Gallica (in French). 1836-12-25. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  15. ↑ "Poème « Ne me plains pas »". L’œuvre poétique de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
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