Oury, Anna Caroline (née de Belleville)
Oury, Anna Caroline (née de Belleville)
Oury, Anna Caroline (née de Belleville), German pianist and composer; b. Landshut, June 24, 1808; d. Munich, July 22, 1880. Her father, a French nobleman, was director of the Bavarian Court Opera in Munich. She studied with Czerny in Vienna, where she made her debut. She then gave concerts in Munich and in Paris. She settled for many years in London, where she married Antonio James Oury in 1831; toured with him in Russia, Germany, Austria, and France. She wrote a number of piano pieces in the salon style, of which nearly 200 were publ.
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