Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien (2 July 1814 – 6 November 1865), was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.Fétis F.-J.: ''Biographie universelle des musiciens'', vol. 2 (Paris, 1878).

Biography

Born in

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, Thérèse Wartel was the daughter of the opera singer Martin-Joseph Adrien or Andrien (1767–1822) and the Baroness Gabrielle Constance de Philippy de Bucelly d'Estrées (1782–1854). She was also the sister of the piano virtuoso Rosine-Charlotte DelSarte who was the wife of the renowned French music and movement teacher Francois DelSarte (1811–1871). She studied music at the

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, became an accompanist, and from 1831–38 taught as a professor at the Conservatoire. In 1838, she was the first female soloist ever admitted to the

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. In 1833, she married the tenor Pierre-François Wartel (1806–1882) and had a son, Émile, who performed for many years at the Théâtre-Lyrique and later established a vocal school of his own. She died in Paris aged 51.

Works

Wartel composed caprices, fantasies, études, ballads and romances. Selected compositions include: * ''Lessons on the Pianoforte Sonatas of Beethoven'' * ''Souvenirs of the Huguenots'', fantaisie, Leipzig * ''Caprice'' * ''Andante'', autograph, 1843 * ''Six Études de salon pour piano'', Op. 10, Paris (1850) * ''Andante'', Op. 11 (1851) Wartel also published a number of articles and letters on musical subjects, e.g. * "Künstler-Portraits aus der Londoner musikalischen Saison 1859", in: Süddeutsche Musik-Zeitung, 17 October 1859, P. 165. * Leçons écrites sur les sonates pour piano seul de L. van Beethoven, Paris 1865.

References

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