Viard-Louis, Jenny

VIARD-LOUIS, Jenny, née Martin, born September 29, 1831, at Carcassonne. She learned the piano first at the Conservatoire, Paris, where she obtained the first prize, and afterwards from Madame Pleyel. In 1853 she married Nicolas Louis, composer, and after his death in 1857 devoted herself to a complete study of the great masters. In 1859 she married M. Viard, a merchant of Paris, and in 1864-65 undertook a tour through Austria and Germany, where her performance of Beethoven's works...