Hélène Fleury-Roy

Hélène Fleury -Gabrielle - Roy (* 1876, † unknown) was a French composer and the first woman to win a prize in the composition competition for the Prix de Rome.

The student of Henri Dallier, Charles- Marie Widor and André Gedalge won in 1904 with the cantata Medora by Édouard Adenis the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome. In 1928 she took over the class for harmony of the late this year Georges Guiraud at the Conservatory of Toulouse, where she taught until 1945. As a professor of piano and composition, she taught, among other things the conductor Louis Auriacombe, the violinist Pierre Doukan and the composer Charles Chaynes.

Fleury- Roy wrote, inter alia, Songs, piano, violin, cello and organ pieces and a piano quartet. In 1906 Théophile Laforge dedicated to the Grande Fantaisie de concert.

Works

• Arabesque for Piano
• Bourree Gavotte for Piano
• Canzonetta for Piano
• Espérance for Piano
• Fleur des champs for Piano
• La Nuit for Piano
• Minuet for Piano
• Valse Caprice for Piano
• Cœur virginal, song
• Mattutina, song
• Brise du soir for Violin
• Trois pièces faciles for Violin
• Fantaisie for viola (or violin) and piano, Op 18
• Reverie for Cello
• Quatuor for Piano and Strings
• Pastorale for Organ
• Grand Fantaise de concert

Swell

• Website Musica et Memoria (French )

• French composer
• Born 1876
• Died in the 20th century
• Woman