Augusta Mary Anne Holmès ( December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...December 18, Events January January 4 _ Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. ...1847 _ January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...January 28, 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ...1903), French composer of Irish descent. At first she published under the A pseudonym is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ...pseudonym Hermann Zenta. In 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...1871 Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name.

Holmès wrote the lyrics of almost all her songs, oratorios, choral symphonies and the opera La Montagne Noire.

Holmès, despite showing talent at the piano, was not allowed to study at the Paris Conservatoire, but she studied music outside of any institution. She developed her piano playing under the tutelage of local pianist Mademoiselle Peyronnet, Versaille cathedral organist Henri Lambert, and Hyacinthe Klosé taught her, and she showed her compositions to Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a virtuoso pianist and composer. ...Franz Liszt. Around 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ...1876, she started studies with César_Auguste_Jean_Guillaume_Hubert Franck ( December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist. ...César Franck.

Charles Camille Saint_Saëns ( IPA: [ʃaʁl. ...Camille Saint_Saëns wrote of Holmès in the journal Harmonie et Mélodie, "Like children, women have no idea of obstacles, and their willpower breaks all barriers. Mademoiselle Holmès is a woman, an extremist."

Saint_Saëns several times asked Holmès to marry him. There are also rumors that she had a sexual relationship with Franck. Holmès never married, but she cohabitated with the poet Catulle Mendès, for whom she bore five children.

For the Events January-April January 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 - Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Marie Vetsera commit a double suicide in...1889 celebration of the centennial of the French Revolution, Holmès was commissioned to write the Ode Triomphale for the Exposition Universelle, a work requiring about 1200 musicians. She gained a reputation of being a composer of Program music is music intended to musically represent, or accompany, an extra_musical theme, constrasting with absolute music. ...programme music with political meaning, such as her symphonic poems Irlande and Pologne.

Holmès bequeathed most of her musical manuscripts to the Paris Conservatoire.