CAUMONT-DADDE, Comtesse De

Louise de Caumont d’Adde was a French composer associated with the households of Empress Joséphine at Malmaison and, subsequently, Queen Hortense. Her surviving music belongs primarily to the nineteenth-century French romance tradition, consisting of lyrical songs for voice and piano. Several of her compositions set poetry by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.
Her principal documented publication is Dix Romances avec accompagnement de Piano, issued in Paris by Bernard Latte, probably around 1840. The collection contains settings of texts by Desbordes-Valmore, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian and Thibaut IV, alongside several songs for which the authors are not identified in the catalogue.