Louise Geneviève de La Hye
Louise Geneviève de La Hye née Rousseau (7 March 1807 - 18 November 1838) was a French pianist, organist and composer, who sometimes used the pseudonym M. Leon Saint-Amans. Life and career
Louise Geneviève Rousseau was born in Charenton, France, on March 7th, 1807. She was the daughter of Marie-Anne Noblot and of the musician Charles-Louis Rousseau, therefore the grand niece of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She studied piano with her father and with Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, and in 1821 entered the Paris Conservatory. Rousseau began teaching at the Conservatory in 1830, but moved to Cambrai after she married with the marquis Chaumont de la Hye. She had two children and returned to Paris in 1834 where she continued teaching and composing. She suffered from poor health and died in Paris at the age of 31. Works
La Hye composed works including an opera, cantatas, masses, piano works, duos and string quartets. Selected compositions include:
Le songe de la religieuse
Six mélodies italiennes

Her Méthode d'orgue expressif was published after her death, en 1839. Romances 

 Le Corsaire rouge !, lyrics by M. de la Hye
 Chant du crépuscule, lyrics by Victor Hugo, in La Gazette des salons, 1835
 Élégie dramatique, in La Gazette des salons, 1 January 1836
 Je suis maudit !, lyrics by Félix Servan, 1836
 Je l'ai tué !, lyrics by M. de la Hye, in La Gazette des salons, 25 December 1836
 Ne me plains pas, lyrics by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, in La Gazette des salons, #74, 1836

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1810 births
1838 deaths
19th-century classical composers
French music educators
French classical composers
French women classical composers
19th-century French composers
French women music educators
19th-century women composers