CELLIER, Mlle

Mlle Cellier was a nineteenth-century French composer whose given name and biographical details remain unidentified. Her only securely documented composition is La Gondoliera Svizzera, a barcarolle for solo voice and piano in G major. The surviving manuscript, dated approximately 1840, bears the attribution “par M.lle Cellier” and sets an Italian text beginning Giovine gondoliera. It is preserved in the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe and formerly belonged to the Fürstenberg Court Library in Donaueschingen. No other confirmed compositions, recordings or portraits have been located. The stated birth year, 1819, is not independently confirmed by RISM or the German authority record.