Piano Quartet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 69

Composer: BONIS, Mélanie Hélène
  • This work was first published in France in 1905.1
  • Bonis dedicated this piece to Jean Gounod,2 an artist and the son of composer Charles Gounod. 
  • This work was performed at a house concert in Paris in 1906, at which Jean Gounod and Camille Saint-Saëns were both in attendance.3  
    • Bonis’s great-granddaughter Christine Geliot reports a family oral history that on this occasion, Saint-Saëns remarked, “I didn’t know a woman could write [like] that. She knows all the ins and outs of a being a composer!”4

Sources

  1. “Mel Bonis: Catalogue (Musique de chambre),” Mel Bonis, accessed March 30, 2022, https://www.mel-bonis.com/EN/Catalogue/. 
  2. Ibid.
  3. Dorothea Schenck, “Très douée, bonne musicienne”: die französische Komponistin Mel Bonis (1858-1937) (Germany: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg), 23.
  4. Christine Geliot, “Compositions for voice by Mel Bonis, French woman composer, 1858-1937,” National Association of Teachers of Singing (2007), accessed March 30, 2022, https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Compositions+for+voice+by+Mel+Bonis%2C+French+woman+composer%2C+1858-1937.

Cut IDs

24290