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GRETRY, Angelique Dorothee Lucie

(1770–1790)> COMPOSER

French composer. Paris, ; Paris, . She studied under her father, the Belgian composer Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry. She wrote Le Mariage d’Antoine at the age of 14 and it was successfully performed at the Comedie-Italienne in Paris. She married an amateur musician, Pierre Marin de Champcourt, but died soon after her marriage.

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