Life

Loïsa Puget's mother was a singer, and saw that her daughter received a musical education including study at the same school as George Sand

George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...

. Puget composed and performed her own music in salons and married her lyricist Gustave Lemoine. She was most productive from 1830 to 1845, and composed the music for over 300 songs. In 1841 Lemoine and Adolphe Philippe D’Ennery wrote a melodrama based on Puget's most successful song, La Grâce de Dieu, which provided the idea for Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix

Linda di Chamounix is an operatic melodramma semiserio in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Gaetano Rossi. It premiered in Vienna, at the Kärntnertortheater, on May 19, 1842.-Performance history:...

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Works

Puget's composed for popular consumption, including family drawing room performance, popular concerts and school songbooks. Selected works include:

• Belle pour lui! (Text: Gustave Lemoine)
• Jeune fille, à quinze ans (Text: Gustave Lemoine)
• La chanson du charbonnier, ou Blanc et noir (Text: Gustave Lemoine)
• Le mauvais œil, opera, 1836
• À la grâce de Dieu