Augusta Holmès, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Augusta Holmès

French composer

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1847

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1903

Profession: writer, composer, poet, pianist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Augusta (Mary Anne) Holmès (18 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent (her father was from Youghal, Co.
Cork).
At first she published under the pseudonym Hermann Zenta.
In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name.
She herself wrote the lyrics to almost all her songs and oratorios, as well as the libretto of her opera La Montagne Noire and the programmatic poems for her symphonic poems including Irlande and Andromède.