page_title: Augusta Holmès
section_title: Selected compositions
hierarchical_section_title: Augusta Holmès / Selected compositions
caption_attribution_description: English: Maurice Renaud (1861-1933) and Lucienne Bréval (1869-1935) in La Montagne noire by Augusta Holmès (1847-1903).
context_page_description: Augusta Holmès was a French composer of Irish descent. 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.
caption: Maurice Renaud & Lucienne Bréval in Augusta Holmès' opera, La Montagne noire.
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