Charlotte Madelaine Louise de Pernet (1766-1789) - Sonate en Do majeur

★ Follow music ► Composer: Charlotte Madelaine Louise de Pernet (1766-1789) Work: Sonate (III) en Do majeur des ’Quatre Sonates pour le piano-forte ou le clavecin... composées et dédiées à elle-même après sa mort’ Performers: Barbara Bаіrd (harpsichord) Painting: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Family portrait indoors HD image: Further info: :/12148/btv1b108833852/ Listen free: No available --- Charlotte Madelaine Louise de Pernet [Madame de Villeblanche] (Saint-Domingue, 1766 - Paris, 11 August 1789) French composer. Daughter of Charles Hyacinthe de Pernet and Marie Louise Bouchaud de La Foresterie, her family came from Nantes before settled in Saint-Domingue where they owned a sugar cane and coffee plantations. After her mom’s death, she was under the supervision of his cousin, and composer, Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon with whom she received music lessons. On 6 April 1782, she left the Ursuline convent where she was living in order to get marry René Armand Levasseur de Villeblanche. The couple settled in Paris but she died prematurely in 1789. One year later, her husband published postum the collection of ’Quatre Sonates pour le piano-forte ou le clavecin... composées et dédiées à elle-même après sa mort’, written by her when she was young.