Caroline Montigny-Rémaury
Caroline Montigny-Remaury was a French classical pianist.Biography
Caroline Montigny-Remaury was the wife of publicist Léon Montigny. When she became a widow, she married Auguste Wieczffinski de Serres, an engineer of the Ponts et chaussées. She was the sister of painter Léontine Rémaury who was the wife of the painter Louis Bauderon de Vermeron, the sister-in-law of Ambroise Thomas, director of the Conservatoire de Paris.
She was the mother of Jean-Maurice-Charles Montigny,.
She was a pupil of Franz Liszt. She performed in the provinces and abroad, Bordeaux, Lyon, London, where her appearance caused a sensation, and at the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, where she had been at the request of Ferdinand Hiller, and where she obtained a real triumph.
A virtuoso pianist, she was an inspiration to many composers and was often dedicated pieces by Pierné, Fauré, and Saint-Saëns. In 1880 Fauré dedicated his Barcarolle No 1 in A minor, Op 26 to her. It was premiered by Saint-Saëns at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique in 1882. In 1886 Saint-Saëns wrote his Wedding-Cake for her second marriage in 1886, and dedicated her his Études pour la Main gauche seule, opus 135, after she had seriously wounded her right hand, and with which she could no longer play.
She died 19 June 1913 aged 70 in her home, 2 Cité Odiot, and was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
