Gabrielle Ferrari

Gabrielle Ferrari (14 September 1851 – 4 July 1921) was a French pianist and composer noted for opera. Born Gabrielle Colombari, she was born and died in Paris and studied with Charles Gounod and Théodore Dubois. Her opera Le Cobzar premiered in Monte Carlo.[1][2]

Gabrielle Ferrari

She married François Ferrari with whom she had four daughters.

Works

Title page of Le Cobzar

Ferrari composed operas and songs, writing her own text, and also for orchestral and piano performance. Selected works include:

Le Tartare, (1906) opera
Le dernier amour, (1895) opera
Le Cobzar, (1909) opera
Feuilles d'album, Op. 76
Feuille morte
Menuet
Nirvana
Fantasie Symphonique
Jeanne d'Arc

References

"Famous Women in Musical History - "The Etude" Music Magazine, July, 1909". etudemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 9 December 2010.

External links

Works by or about Gabrielle Ferrari at Internet Archive
Free scores by Gabrielle Ferrari at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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[1] "Famous Women in Musical History - "The Etude" Music Magazine, July, 1909". etudemagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-11-18.

[2] Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 9 December 2010.