Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (1762-1811) - Sonata pour Pianoforte (1785)

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Composer: Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (1762-1811)
Work: Sonata (II) pour Pianoforte des 'Trois Sonates pour la harpe ou piano-forte avec accompagnement de violon... Oeuvre Ier' (1785)
1. Allegro moderato 0:00
2. Minuetto 8:22

Software: Sibelius
Instrument: Fortepiano (1796) by Joseph Dohnal (1759-1829)
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9081726g
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/0hyjn7aokgthiw2/CLERY-Sonata.xml/file

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Marie-Elizabeth Duverger-Cléry [Duvergé]
(Paris, 10 November 1761 - Paris, 4 August 1811)

French harpist and composer. The conjectural birthdate assumes she was the 15-year-old ‘Mlle Duv**’ whose air, 'Tout ce que je vois me rappelle', was printed in the Mercure de France in 1776. As Mlle Duverger (or Duvergé) she sang and played the harp at the Concert Spirituel (1780-82), sometimes performing her own works. After her marriage (to Jean-Baptiste Cant-Hanet dit Cléry), she published three sonatas for harp accompanied by violin (op.1, 1785) as ‘Mde Cléry, née Duvergé’, with the title 'musicienne des concerts de la Reine'. Her husband was later famous as the valet de chambre assigned to the imprisoned Louis XVI during the French Revolution (1792). Cléry (and perhaps also his wife) went to Austria in 1795, where he entered the service of Louis XVI’s daughter, Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte.