Pianist virtuoso, Marie Jaëll affirms herself as a composer.

She takes lessons of composition with César Franck and Camille Saint-Saëns, who introduces her to the Society of Music Composers, which was extremely rare for a woman at that time.

The music of Marie Jaëll is at the hinge of the Romanticism and of the French Music of XXth century: D'Indy, Duparc, Fauré, Gounod, Saint-Saëns... famous names which we find in her abundant correspondence.

The whole of its compositions forms a rather significant and varied work. She composes of course pieces for piano, but also quartets, concertos for piano or violoncello, a sonata, waltzes, as well as works for orchestra : At the tomb of a child (with choruses), Ossiane (symphonic poem), Harmonies of Alsace.

She has moreover put in music poems of Victor Hugo and Jean Richepin, and even written an opera, Runéa.

Some musical clips.