Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos

Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos (May 1, 1860 — May 19, 1951[1]) was a French pianist.

Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos
Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos by Léopold-Émile Reutlinger in 1902
BornMay 1, 1860
Toulouse, France
DiedMay 19, 1951(1951-05-19) (aged 91)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Other namesAimée-Marie Roger-Miclos, Maria Roger-Miclos, Mme. Roger-Miclos-Battaille
Occupationpianist
Years active1880s-1920s
Marie-Aimée Roger-Miclos, from a 1903 publication.

Early life

Marie-Aimée Miclos was born in Toulouse.[2][3] She studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse and the Conservatoire de Paris, with Louise Aglaé Massart and with Henri Herz.[4]

Career

Several composers dedicated compositions to Roger-Miclos.[5] Joseph O'Kelly dedicated a piano work to Roger-Miclos in 1884.[6] Camille Saint-Saëns dedicated a piano piece to Roger-Miclos, which she premiered in 1891.[7]

Roger-Miclos played in London in 1890[8] and 1894.[9] She toured German-speaking cities in 1893, 1894, and 1897.[2] She toured in the United States and Canada in the 1902–1903 season.[10][11] "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."[12] In 1905, she made recordings of Mendelssohn and Chopin works.[13][14]

She also taught piano, at the Paris Conservatoire.[15] 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 Geneviève Granger, exhibited in 1909.[16]

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.[3] 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.[2][17]

References
  1. Acte 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.
  2. Marie Roger-Miclos, Sophie Drinker Institut.
  3. Hugues Imbert, "Mme. Roger-Miclos" Guide musical (February 25, 1894): 196-198.
  4. David Dubal, The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings (Hal Leonard Corporation 2004): 294-295. ISBN 9781574670882
  5. "Category:Roger-Miclos, Marie" IMSLP Petrucci Music Library.
  6. Axel Klein, O'Kelly: An Irish Musical Family in Nineteenth-Century France (Axel Klein 2014): 59, 420. ISBN 9783735723109
  7. Sabina Teller Ratner, Camille Saint-Saëns, 1835-1921: A Thematic Catalogue of His Complete Works (Oxford University Press 2002): 393-394. ISBN 9780198163206
  8. "Recent Concerts" The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art (June 14, 1890): 738.
  9. "Pianoforte Recitals" The Musical Times (June 1, 1894): 391-392.
  10. "Music and Musicians" The Theatre (March 1903): 77-78.
  11. David Converse, "The World of To-Day" Boston Home Journal (January 3, 1902): 6.
  12. "Chicago Grand Opera Season" The Muse (April 1903): 209.
  13. Charles Timbrell, French Pianism: A Historical Perspective (Hal Leonard Corporation 1999): 60-61. ISBN 9781574670455
  14. Frank Hoffmann, ed., Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (Routledge 2004): 1638. ISBN 9781135949501
  15. "The Most Difficult Piano Piece" Current Literature (September 1895): 226.
  16. Leonard Forrer, ed., Biographical dictionary of medallists (Baldwin 1923): 391.
  17. Charles Battaille, Artlyriquefr.
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