CHERBOURG, Mlle
Name:
CHERBOURG, Mlle (b. 1748)
Musical genre:
Vocal Music/Art Songs
Country of birth:
France
Country of location:
France
Notes:
Mlle Cherbourg was an eighteenth-century French composer whose identity and life dates remain unknown. She is known from her Premier recueil de chansons avec accompagnement de guitarre et six menuets en duo pour deux guitarres, published in Paris and Lyon around 1765 and dedicated to the Comtesse de Beaunay. The collection is an important surviving example of guitar music published by a woman in eighteenth-century France.
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