Le Beau L.A. 8 Praeludien für Clavier, Op. 12 (8 Preludes for piano)

Berlin: Verlag von Ries & Erler, no date. — 25 p. (18 p. preludes + 7 p. biography). With bookmarks."From wikepedia": Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850-1927) was a German composer of classical music. She studied with noted musicians Clara Schumann and Franz Lachner, but her primary instructor was Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Like many other 19th century female composers, Le Beau began her career in music as a pianist, and later earned her living teaching, critiquing, and performing music...
From her father William, a musician and composer, Le Beau received piano lessons beginning at the age of five. Le Beau composed her first piece at the age of eight. She studied languages from 1863 through 1866 as a guest at the local girls' school. At age sixteen, she completed her education with a degree from a private institution for girls, and from then on devoted herself to music.
From oxfordmusiconline: German composer, pianist and critic. She wrote her first pieces at 15 and made her piano début three years later with the Baden court orchestra. She performed her own compositions for Hans von Bülow, gaining his lifelong encouragement, and was briefly a pupil of Clara Schumann. She studied mainly, however, with Joseph Rheinberger, for which purpose the family moved to Munich in 1874. This was her most fruitful period as a composer and pianist and resulted in many of her best works, composition prizes, many favourable reviews of performances of her works, and meetings with Brahms, Liszt and Hanslick during extensive concert tours. Le Beau’s style, which changed little throughout her life, is characterized by strong, well-shaped themes and strict sonata structure, as well as some use of colourizing, non-functional chords and leitmotifs. Many development sections, however, consist of frequent repetitions of thematic material with little alteration. For this reason (as Hanslick noted) her choral works and smaller pieces with rigid strophic or dance structures are often more successful...`Note: The Croatian pianist Ana-Marija Markinova has recorded the complete works for piano by Luise Adolpha Le Beau. Here are links to the 8 preludes:







8 Preludes, Op.12
Mäßig bewegt (G minor)
Munter (B-flat major)
Munter und leicht (D major)
Ziemlich ruhig (B minor)
Mäßig bewegt (F-sharp minor)
Bewegt (D-flat major)
Einfach (F minor)
Mit Grazie (A-flat major)
Appendix: Luise Adolpha Le Beau, Lexocon article ("Lexicalische Artikel") by Annika Forkert, published by MUGI (Musik und Gender im Internet)