Lucile Grétry
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Lucile-Angélique-Dorothée-Louise Grétry (1772 - 1790) was a French composer. The second daughter of the famous composer André Grétry and the painter Jeanne-Marie Grandon, she wrote two opéras comiques for the Comédie-Italienne theatre. The first, Le mariage d’Antonio (1786) was written when she was just fourteen years old. It was a sequel to her father's most famous work, Richard Coeur-de-lion (1784), and ran for 47 performances. Her father assisted her with the orchestral scoring. It was followed by Toinette et Louis in 1787, which was a failure. Lucile Grétry's promising career was cut short by her death from tuberculosis at the age of eighteen.
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