Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767-1859) - Sonata (I) for the harpsichord, Opera prima (1786)

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Composer: Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (1767-1859)
Work: Sonata (I) for the harpsichord, Opera prima (1786)
Performers: Barbara Harbach (cembalo)

Sonata (I) (1786)
1. Allegro con spirito 0:00
2. Larghetto 4:58
3. Rondo 8:41

Painting: Henry Pickering (1720-1770) - Portrait of Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Bt. (1701-1767), of Bosworth Hall, Leicestershire, and his Family (1755)
Image in high resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2mQJTuG

Further info: https://www.amazon.co.uk/18th-Century-Women-Composers-Harpsichord/dp/B000025YJJ
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Cecilia Maria Barthélemon [Hinchcliffe, Henslow]
(London, 1 September 1767 - Tottenhill, 5 December 1859)

English singer, composer, pianist and organist. Daughter of François-Hippolyte and Maria Barthélemon, she went with her parents on their continental tour (1776-77) and sang before the King of Naples and Marie Antoinette. She repeated the scena which she had performed for them at her mother’s benefit concert in London in March 1778 and continued to appear with her parents as a singer, often in duets with her mother, and later as a pianist. She does not appear to have had an independent performing career or to have composed after her marriage to Captain E.P. Henslowe (not W.H. Henslowe; see the memoir Francis Barthélemon, 1896). Haydn was a friend of the Barthélemons and Cecilia treasured memories of his visits to them during his London years. She dedicated her keyboard sonata op.3 to Haydn and was a subscriber (listed as ‘Mrs Ed. Henslow’) to The Creation. After married with Captain E.P. Henslow around December 1796, she definitely stopped performing and composing. #ClassicalMusic