Thérèse Wartel

Therese Wartel

Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien, (born Paris, 2 July 1814, died Paris 6 November 1865) was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.[1]

Biography

Thérèse Wartel was the daughter of the opera singer Martin-Joseph Adrien or Andrien (1767-1822) and the Baroness Gabrielle Constance de Philippy de Bucelly d'Estrées (1782-1854). She was also the sister of the piano virtuoso Rosine-Charlotte DelSarte (née Adrien) who was the wife of the renowned French music and movement teacher Francois DelSarte (1811-1871).[2]

She studied music at the Conservatoire, became an accompanist, and from 1831-38 taught as a professor at the Conservatoire.[3] She was the first female soloist ever admitted at the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in 1838.[4]

In 1833 she married tenor Pierre-François Wartel (1806-1882), and had a son Émile who performed for many years at the Théâtre-Lyrique, and later established a vocal school of his own.[5][6]

Works

Wartel composed caprices, fantasies, etudes, ballads and romances. Selected compositions include:

  • Lessons on the Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven
  • Souvenirs of the Huguenots, fantaisie, Leipzig
  • Caprice
  • Andante, Autograph, 1843
  • Six Etudes de salon pour piano op 10, Paris, 1850
  • Andante Opus 11, 1851

Wartel also published a number of articles and letters on music subjects.

References

  1. ↑ Fétis F-J. Biographie universelle des musiciens. Vol II. Paris, 1878.
  2. ↑ "La Maison de PHILIPPI(Y) de BUCELLI(Y) d'ESTRÉES: Gabrielle Constance de Philippy de Bucelly d'Estrées (1782 to 1854)". La Maison de PHILIPPI(Y) de BUCELLI(Y) d'ESTRÉES. 2013-08-06. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  3. ↑ Wartel , (Atale) Thérèse (-Annette), born Adrien, archived from the original on 23 April 2014, retrieved 31 May 2014
  4. ↑ Grotjahn, Rebecca; Heitmann, Christin (2006). "Louise Farrenc und die Klassik-Rezeption in Frankreich" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Page:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 4.djvu/399". Retrieved 3 October 2010.
  6. ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
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