成人快手

The 成人快手 Concert Orchestra perform Holm猫s 1876 work live on Radio 3 in Concert on International Women's Day 2018.

Augusta Holm猫s was a French composer of Irish descent. Although deeply musical, Holm猫s was discouraged by her parents and had to wait until their deaths to embark on her composing career.

A courageous, principled character who didn't play by the book, Holm猫s had a large circle of artistic friends and admirers, including Liszt, Rossini, Saint-Sa毛ns and C茅sar Franck (with whom she studied). She also had five children with the poet Catulle Mend茅s.

Dr Anastasia Belina-Johnson, an academic who has been researching Holm猫s' life and work on behalf of the 成人快手/AHRC's Forgotten Women Composers project, notes that Augusta "became respected as a composer of music that was free of dainties and sentimentalities 鈥� in fact, her music was often characterised as 鈥榤asculine鈥� and 鈥榲irile鈥�!"

In 1895, Holm猫s was the first woman to have an opera premiered in Paris. She composed large-scale orchestral and choral works, writing a piece for 1,200 performers for the centenary of the French Revolution. Yet while the first recordings of Holm猫s鈥檚 music were made in 1994, much of her catalogue still remains undiscovered.

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