Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel,érè née Adrien (2 July 1814 – 6 November 1865), was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.

Biography

Born in Paris, 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).

Thérèse Wartel

She studied music at the Conservatoire, 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 Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.

Thérèse Wartel

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.

Thérèse Wartel

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.

References

1814 births

1865 deaths

19th-century classical composers

19th-century French composers

19th-century women composers

Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris

Conservatoire de Paris alumni

French women classical composers

French music educators

French Romantic composers

Musicians from Paris

French women music educators