Louise Augusta Marie Julia Haenel de Cronenthall (18 June 1836 – 9 March 1896) was an Austrian

Austrians

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 composer who lived and worked in France

France

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Life

Louise Haenel de Cronenthall was born in Graz

Graz

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, Austria

Austria

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, the daughter of piano maker Julius Franz Hänel, and moved to Paris

Paris

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 to study at the Conservatoire at age 17. She studied with Camille-Marie Stamaty

Camille-Marie Stamaty

Camille-Marie Stamaty was a French pianist, piano teacher and composer predominantly of piano music and studies . Today largely forgotten, he was one of the preeminent piano teachers in 19th century Paris...

 (1811–1870) for piano, Auguste-Joseph Franchomme (1808–1884) for cello, and Jules Demersseman

Jules Demersseman

Jules Auguste Demersseman was a French flautist and composer.- Biography :Demersseman was born in Hondschoote, Département Nord, France, near the Belgian border. At the ripe age of eleven, he was a student of Jean-Louis Tulou at the Conservatoire de Paris. He won the first prize there at the age...

(1833–1866) for flute and composition. In 1862 she married Marquise d'Héricourt de Valincourt (1836–1896).

Haenel received a medal for her work in the Paris World Fair of 1867. She died in Paris.

Works

Louise Haenel de Cronenthall was a very productive composer. Selected compositions include:

• La nuit d'é preuve (The Eight samples) opera, 1867
• La Chanson du Thé
• Cremonese, string quartet
• La cinquantaine villageoise (The Golden Peasant Wedding), symphony
• Salute au printemps (spring greeting), symphony
• La fantastique (The Great), symphony
• Appolonia, symphony
• Bonheur pastoral (pastoral happiness), symphony