Hélène de Montgeroult composed 114 Études, demonstrating before Chopin that educational Études could be rich in harmony, melody, contrasts, and emotion.
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Cécile Chaminade, despite not being allowed to enter the Paris Conservatoire, was admired by composers like Bizet, who called her 'My little Mozart'.
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Germaine Tailleferre secretly took music lessons due to her father forbidding her studies, yet she became a brilliant student at the Paris Conservatoire and a member of the 'Groupe des Six'.
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Hélène de Montgeroult, a pianist from Lyons, saved her life during the French Revolution by improvising on the theme of La Marseillaise before the revolutionary tribunal.
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Hélène de Montgeroult was the first female teacher appointed at the new Paris Conservatoire, though she soon left to focus on composition.
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Blanche Selva was a highly talented French woman pianist of the early 20th century, known for being the first to perform the complete keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach in concert.
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Mel Bonis, born into an artisan family, taught herself piano and later studied brilliantly at the Paris Conservatoire before her parents withdrew her.
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