Eugénie-Émilie Juliette Folville (1870-1946)

     ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Eugénie-Emile Juliette Folville was born in Liége, Belgium on January 5, 1870. She was taught music by her father very early. She also studied with renown violinist and pedagogue César Thomson. (Source: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 4th Ed., p. 494) [N.B. Thomson, Folville's teacher, taught at Brussels Conservatory (Liège) and the Royal School of Music in Brussels.] She showed a great even prodigious talent for the violin. She debut as a concert violinist was in Liége in 1879.  Her Chant de Noël was performed at the Liége Cathedral when she was 17. She continued giving violin and piano concerts in Belgium and northern France. She went to England in 1888. She was appointed as a professor of music at the Liége Conservatory in 1898. In 1914 she lived in Bournemouth, England and returned to Europe after the conclusion of World War I. She died in Dourgne, (Tarn), France on October 28, 1946.

Folville's works include: Two piano sonatas, two books of songs, a piano quartet, three orchestral suites, a violin concerto, a dramatic scene "Eva," a two-act opera, "Atala," a symphonic poem, "Oceano Nox,", motets, a piano concerto and many pieces for organ and piano.

About Folville's Compositions

        "In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra presented a truly international program of music by American, Belgian and Chinese composers March 10, 2001 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
        Under the expressive conducting of Maestra Apo Hsu, the orchestra opened with the U.S. premiere of Juliette Folville’s Impressions d’Ardenne: Symphonic sketches for orchestra. It is believed to have been first performed in 1939 by the Flemish Radio Orchestra. The first movement, “La Roche aux Faucons”, (The Falcon’s Rock) has all the sweeping melodies of a melodramatic film score, while the second movement “Cimetiere de Campagne (Cemetery in the Country) is a more somber, peaceful experiment in mood. Folville’s final movement, “Danse champetre” (Country Dance) leads the composition to a dynamic and energetic conclusion."  (Source: OutNow Gay and Lesbian Magazine  April 2001)

REV: 08/07/2006

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