Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos (May 1, 1860 – May 19, 1951Acte de décès n° 1037 (vue 15/31). Archives en ligne de la Ville de Paris, état-civil du 16ème arrondissement, registre des décès de 1951.) was a French pianist. Born in Toulouse, she studied first there and then at the Paris conservatory, where she would one day teach. Several composers dedicated compositions to her, and she toured Europe and North America and produced recordings at the turn of the 20th century.
Early life Marie-Aimée Miclos was born in Toulouse.Marie Roger-Miclos, Sophie Drinker Institut.Hugues Imbert, "Mme. Roger-Miclos" Guide musical (February 25, 1894): 196–198. She studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse and the Conservatoire de Paris, with and with Henri Herz.David Dubal, The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings (Hal Leonard Corporation 2004): 294–295.
Career Several composers dedicated compositions to Roger-Miclos."Category:Roger-Miclos, Marie" IMSLP Petrucci Music Library. Joseph O'Kelly dedicated a piano work to Roger-Miclos in 1884.Axel Klein, O'Kelly: An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France (Axel Klein 2014): 59, 420. Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated his Africa fantasia to Roger-Miclos, which she premiered in 1891 to great acclaim.Sabina Teller Ratner, Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835–1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works (Oxford University Press 2002): 393–394.
Roger-Miclos played in London in 1890"Recent Concerts" The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art (June 14, 1890): 738. and 1894."Pianoforte Recitals" The Musical Times (June 1, 1894): 391–392. She toured German-speaking cities in 1893, 1894, and 1897. She toured in the United States and Canada in the 1902–1903 season."Music and Musicians" The Theatre (March 1903): 77–78.David Converse, "The World of To-Day" Boston Home Journal (January 3, 1902): 6. "She comes from Southern France, the land of fire and passion, and is an artist of interesting and unconventional qualities, possessing a strongly marked sense of rhythm, brilliant and incisive touch, and her playing is marked with certainty, that adds tonal charm to brilliancy," observed one reviewer, adding "As a pianiste she is an artistic diplomat.""Chicago Grand Opera Season" The Muse (April 1903): 209. In 1905, she made recordings of Mendelssohn and Chopin works.Charles Timbrell, French Pianism: A Historical Perspective (Hal Leonard Corporation 1999): 60–61. Frank Hoffmann, ed., Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (Routledge 2004): 1638.
She also taught piano, at the Paris Conservatoire."The Most Difficult Piano Piece" Current Literature (September 1895): 226. American painter George Da Maduro Peixotto made a portrait of her in 1893. She was also the subject of a medal made by French artist , exhibited in 1909.Leonard Forrer, ed., Biographical dictionary of medallists (Baldwin 1923): 391.
Personal life Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos married twice. Her first husband, Roger, was a railroad inspector; they married in 1881, and he died in 1887. Her second husband was fellow musician Louis-Charles Battaille, the son of Charles-Amable Battaille; they married in 1905, and he died in 1937. She died in Paris in 1951, aged 91 years.Charles Battaille , Artlyriquefr.
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