Louise-Françoise Puget (1810-1889) - Rondoletto pour piano (1835)

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Composer: Louise-Françoise Puget (1810-1889)
Work: Rondoletto pour piano (1835)
Software: Sibelius
Instrument: Fortepiano (1796) by Joseph Dohnal (1759-1829)
World Premiere: Yes
Sheet music (pdf): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080960753
Sheet music (xml): https://www.mediafire.com/file/0pu0uxftn9ctpvt/PUGET-Rondoletto.xml/file

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Louise-Françoise (Loïsa) Puget [Pugit, Lemoine]
(Paris, 11 February 1810 - Pau, 27 November 1889)

French composer and singer. She showed talent at an early age and took lessons from her mother, a singer; she later studied composition with Adolphe Adam. She composed about 300 romances, which were extraordinarily popular: the most famous was 'A la grâce de Dieu'. Her popularity reached well beyond Paris, as documented by editions in different languages and in piano arrangements. Contemporary periodicals chronicle many of her concerts and publications, and she was hailed by the renowned critic Henri-Louis Blanchard as the ‘queen of this genre of music’. Between 1830 and 1845 she published illustrated volumes of songs entitled Album or Collection des romances. Most of the texts were written by the poet-actor Gustave Lemoine, who became her husband in 1845. Lemoine’s texts treat a wide variety of subjects, from the innocence of 'Demain, je serai dame', to the flagrant sentimentality of 'Appelle-moi ta mère', and the sensational treatment of suicide in 'Morte d’amour!' After her marriage, Puget’s compositional output decreased dramatically. In addition to romances, she composed two one-act operettas: 'Le mauvais oeil' and 'La veilleuse, ou Les nuits de milady'. The première of the former received a very favourable review from Hector Berlioz. Puget’s output also includes some solo piano works and 'Mystère de Paris', a set of quadrilles for four hands.