Suite for Flute and Piano

Clémence de Grandval (1828 – 1907) was a French composer. Born in a well-to-do family where father played piano and mother wrote and published stories, she was surrounded by many artists that visited their home during her childhood. She took composition lessons from Friedrich Flotow and composition and piano lessons from Frederic Chopin. Later she studied composition with Camille Saint-Saëns who even dedicated his oratorio Oratorio de Noel to Clémence. Even though she was wealthy, most of her compositions were published under pseudonyms like Caroline Blangy, Clémence Valgrand, Maria Felicita de Reiset and Maria Reiset de Tesier.
Overall she composed 5 operas, several cantatas and oratorios, Oboe concerto as well as several chamber music compositions and songs. In 1880 she received Rossini prize for her oratorio La fille de Jaïre. During the 1870s she was one of the most played composers in the Société Nationale de Musique, created for promoting French music at that time.