Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (Charles Lysberg) (1 May 1821 – 14 February 1873) was a Swiss pianist

Pianist

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 and composer

Composer

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.

Biography

He was born in Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

 and received his early music education there. In 1835 he went to Paris

Paris

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, where he studied under Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

 and met Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

. The latter was particularly supportive and helped publish Bovy-Lysberg's Les Suissesses, op. 1, a set of waltz

Waltz

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es for piano. By mid-1840s Bovy-Lysberg was becoming a well-known teacher and performer in Paris, but after the French Revolution of 1848

French Revolution of 1848

The 1848 Revolution in France was one of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe. In France, the February revolution ended the Orleans monarchy and led to the creation of the French Second Republic. The February Revolution was really the belated second phase of the Revolution of 1830...

 he had to leave for his home town. He got married in 1848 and settled in his wife's castle in Dardagny

Dardagny

Dardagny is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.In 1978, Dardagny received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage.-History:...

, near Geneva. He stayed there for the rest of his life, frequently giving recitals in Geneva and the neighbouring towns, organizing concerts and publishing his music. He also taught at the Geneva Conservatory in 1848–9 and 1870–3. He composed more than 150 pieces, most of them short works for piano, very popular in Geneva salons of his time, but almost completely unknown today. A street in Geneve is named after him, rue Bovy-Lysberg.

Piano

• Op. 1. Les Suissesses. 5 Valses brillantes.
• Op. 3. 4 Romances (I. A Marie. II. Rêve. III. Espoir. IV. Souvenir)
• Op. 4. Le Lac de Brientz. Quadrille
• Op. 6. Les Amaranthes. 4 Valses brillantes.
• Op. 8. Les Roses d'automne. Valses brillantes.
• Op. 9. La Reine des Prés. Valse brillante.
• Op. 10. Trois nocturnes
• Op. 11. Fantaisie
• Op. 14. Six Etudes de Salon
• Op. 15. 4 Romances
• Op. 16. Fantaisie sur: Guillaume Tell de Rossini
• Op. 17. Rose des Alpes. Valse brillante.
• Op. 18. 6 Caprices
• Op. 20. Etude pour la maine gauche seule.
• Op. 21. Fantaisie brillante sur la cavatine fav. de La Niobe de Pacini
• Op. 23. Divertissement brillante.
• Op. 25. Deuxieme barcarolle
• Op. 26. La Napolitana. Etude de Légèreté.
• Op. 27. 3 Romances sans paroles (I. Regrets. II. Invocation. III. Aveu)
• Op. 28. Terpsichore. Caprice.
• Op. 29. Deux Nocturnes
• Op. 30. 3 Romances sans paroles (I. Près d'une chapelle. II. Soir d'Automne. III. Rayon de Bonheur)
• Op. 31. Sérénade.
• Op. 32. Tarantelle.
• Op. 33. Carillon. Impromptu.
• Op. 34. La Fontaine. Idylle.
• Op. 35. Bohémienne. Caprice.
• Op. 36. 2 Rêveries (I. Le Crépuscule. II. L'Aube)
• Op. 37. Le Tornoi. Poème musical.
• Op. 38. Romanesca
• Op. 39. Le Réveil des oiseaux. Idylle.
• Op. 40. Le Hamac. Berceuse.
• Op. 41. Fantaisie sur des Airs suisses
• Op. 42. Danse arménienne.
• Op. 43. Menuet dans le style ancien.
• Op. 44. Caprice silésien.
• Op. 45. Fantaisie. Galop.
• Op. 46. Pensées de Mai. 2 Romances sans paroles.
• Op. 47. Un Rêve d'enfant. Mélodie.
• Op. 48. Valse brillante.
• Op. 49. Fantaisie brillante sur Le Fanchonnette de Clapisson
• Op. 50. Allegro de concert
• Op. 51. La Baladine. Caprice
• Op. 52. Fantaisie alpestre
• Op. 53. Valse brillante.
• Op. 54. Chant d'Appenzell. Bluette brillante.
• Op. 55. Chant du Nautonnier. Barcarolle.
• Op. 56. Océan. Méditation.
• Op. 57. L'Amazone. Caprice.
• Op. 58. L'Angelus du Matin
• Op. 59. Le Tic-tac du moulin
• Op. 60. Menuet
• Op. 61. Reflets intimes. 3 Mélodies. (I. Céleste quiétude. II. Mes Rêves chéris. III. Au Printemps.)
• Op. 62. Idylle
• Op. 63. Giovinetta. Impromptu-Galop.
• Op. 64. La Moldavienne. Fantaisie.
• Op. 66. La Bayadère. Caprice du genre.
• Op. 67. Berceuse
• Op. 82. Boléro
• Op. 83. Airs savoisiens, variés
• Op. 89. Souvenir de Don Juan
• Op. 94. Sur l'onde.
• Op. 106. Polonaise
• Op. 107. La Chasse
• Op. 117. Quatrième valse de salon
• Le chant du rouet

Stage

• La fille du carillonneur, comic opera (first performance 1854)
• Les Alpes, cantata (1860)

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