Louise Héritte-Viardot
Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot was a French singer, pianist, conductor and composer. She was born in Paris, the eldest child of Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Louis Viardot, niece of Maria Malibran and sister to composer and conductor Paul Viardot.
In 1863 Viardot married Ernest Héritte, Honorary Consul and Chancellor of the Embassy of France in Berne. Her performing career was ended by illness, and with the help of Clara Schumann, she found a teaching position as a singing teacher at the Hoch Conservatory. She died in Heidelberg.Works
Héritte-Viardot composed mostly chamber music pieces and orchestral works and symphonies, many of which are lost. Selected works include:
- Arme kleine Liebe
- Der Schmied, op. 8 no. 5
- Erlösung
- Saphiren sind die Augen dein
- Sehnsucht
- Sérénade
- Tag und Nacht
- Unter'm Machendelbaum
- Sonata for cello and piano opus 40,
- Die Bajadere, cantata for chorus and orchestra
- Wonne des Himmels, cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra
- Das Bacchusfest, cantata for chorus and orchestra, 1880
- Lindoro, comic opera in one act, 1879
- Quartet for piano and strings, No. 1 in A Major, Opus 9, Im Sommer, 1883;
- Quartet for piano and strings, No. 2 in D major, Op 11, Spanish Quartet, 1883
- Quartet for piano and strings, No. 3, 1879
Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
