usical
education. Her works include piano trios, sonatas, and songs with piano
and harp, besides the operetta, "La Belle Fermiere," and the comic
opera, "Ida." Mlle. Duval was another grand opera singer, and author of
the ballet, "Les Genies." Mlle. Kercado, of later date, produced the
operetta, "La Meprise Volontaire." Lucille Gretry, daughter of the
famous composer of that name, produced "Le Mariage d'Antonio" when only
sixteen years, and followed it up with "Toinette et Louis." Her career
was cut short in her twenty-fourth year by an untimely death.

Edme Sophie Gail-Garre, who flourished at the beginning of the
nineteenth century, won some renown by her very popular songs and piano
pieces, but was known chiefly by her successful operas. Among these were
"Les Deux Jaloux," "Mlle. de Launay," "La Meprise," and "La Serenade."
Mlle. Guenin, another youthful aspirant for fame, produced "Daphnis et
Amanthee" in her seventeenth year. Louise Puget wrote romances and
chansons that were remarkably pretty and popular, if not very ambitious,
and produced the operettas, "Le Mauvais Oeil" and "La Veilleuse,"
besides the opera, "Beaucoup de Bruit pour Rien." Helene Santa
Colona-Sourget, author of some beautiful songs and a string trio,
produced a one-act opera, "L'Image," in 1864.

Pauline Thys is a writer who has won considerable dramatic fame. She has
published some songs, but has devoted herself almost wholly to the
stage. Among her successful operettas are "La Pomme de Turquie" and "La
Perruque du Bailli." Her comic operas have been very well received, and
include such favourites in their time as "Le Pays de Cosagne," "Le
Cabaret du Pot-Casse," "Le Fruit Vert," and "Le Mariage de Tabarin." She
has also composed the lyric drama, "Judith." Comtesse Anais de
Perriere-Pilte (Anais Marcelli) produced several successful operas and
operettas, among them "Le Sorcier" and "Les Vacances de l'Amour." The
Baroness de Maistre wrote a number of worthy religious works, among them
an excellent "Stabat Mater." Of her operas, "Les Roussalkas" met with a
success when produced in Brussels. Marguerite Olagnier is a composer
whose productions show real worth. Her "Sais," performed in 1881,
contained many beautiful numbers. She has written another opera, "Le
Persan."

Marie de Pierpont was a talented writer for the organ, as well as an
excellent performer on that instrument. She entered the operatic field
with a work entitled "Le Triomphe du C[oe