Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers
Joséphine-Rosalie-Pauline de Walckiers (1756-1837) was a composer of the Austrian Netherlands.
Life
Joséphine-Rosalie-Pauline de Walckiers belonged to a rich noble family from Brussels. She was the daughter of vicomte Adrien-Ange de Walckiers de Tronchiennes and Dieudonne de Nettine, and the granddaughter of Barbe de Nettine. Her brother Edouard de Walckiers was a member of the local financial authorities.
Works
Her Quatre romances avec accompt. de forte-piano, premier recueil, were published by Aubert in Paris; a copy is held in the Fürstlich Thurn u. Taxis Hofbibliothek in Regensburg, Germany.[1]
She composed the music for Borée et Flore, a three-act opéra-comique performed at the Théàtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1784. She also wrote a divertissement chanté (title unknown) for performance in 1788 at the Théàtre de Schaerbeek in Brussels, and possibly at her salon.[2]
These eight works are listed in Éliane Gubin's Dictionnaire des femmes belges:[3]
- Quand laissant la cite voisine (1784)
- Zephire et Flore (1784)
- Pourquoi sous l'habit de froteur (1788)
- Pour l' objet qui nous réunit (1788)
- Dans ces lieux vraiment enchanteurs (1788)
- Le plus tendre mere (1788)
- Six romances avec la accompagnement de fortepiano dediées à ma sœur (1789)
- Six romances avec la accompagnement de fortepiano (1791)
References
- ^ Barbara Garvey Jackson, ‘Say Can You Deny Me’: A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th through the 18th Centuries (Fayetteville, 1994).
- ^ Jacqueline Letster and Robert Adelson, Women Writing Opera: creativity and controversy in the age of the French Revolution (Berkeley, 2001).
- ^ Éliane Gubin, Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles (Lannoo Uitgeveri, 2006). ISBN 9782873864347