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Augusta Holmès

Augusta Holmès
Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (d. 1903)

Augusta Mary Anne Holmès was a French composer of Irish descent. In 1871, Holmès became a French national and added the accent to her last name. She wrote the texts to almost all of her vocal music herself, including songs, oratorios, the libretto of her opera La Montagne noire and the programmatic poems for her symphonic poems including Irlande and Andromède.

18 December 1847

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