Augusta Mary Anne Holmès, also known by the pseudonym Hermann Zenta, was a French and Irish composer. Holmès wrote the texts to almost all of her vocal music herself, including songs, oratorios, the l
Augusta Holmès
A portrait of Holmès' daughters, Huguette, Claudine, and Helyonne, by Auguste Renoir, 1888, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Maurice Renaud & Lucienne Bréval in Augusta Holmès' opera, La Montagne noire.
Abraham Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters. He was associated with the Parnassianist school.
Augusta Holmès
…fault with women composers – and flamboyant orchestration in which the brass explodes like fireworks..." In 1869, Holmès met the poet, critic and editor Catulle Mendès. Holmès and Mendès later lived together and had three daughters and possibly two sons. The couple's daughters are the subject of the 1888 painting "The…
Portrait of Catulle Mendès
Sarah Bernhardt as St. Theresa in La Vierge d'Avila (1906)
Le NU au SALON , 1900 (published in 1901). The cover image is of a painting by Jules Scalbert, gravure de Louis Geisler [fr].