Clémence de Grandval

Clémence de Grandval

(b St Rémy-des-Monts, Sarthe, 21 Jan 1828; d Paris, 15 Jan 1907). French composer.

Born into a well-to-do family, Marie de Reiset started her musical studies at the age of six. Her earliest compositions were completed in her early teens under the tuition of Friedrich Flotow, a family friend; he left Paris, however, before her musical education was complete. After her marriage to the Vicomte de Grandval, she studied with Saint-Saëns for two years. In 1859 her one-act operetta Le sou de Lise was given its première at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, and was published the same year under the pseudonym Caroline Blangy. Other works appeared under various pen names, including Clémence Valgrand, Maria Felicita de Reiset and Maria Reiset de Tesier.