(b Paris, 31 May 1804; d there, 15 Sept 1875). French composer, pianist, teacher and scholar. A composition pupil of Reicha, she published piano works from 1825, notably the Air russe varié and the 30 Etudes op.26; her chamber music, including two piano quintets, two piano trios, violin sonatas, trios, a nonet and a sextet, was even more successful. She was piano professor at the Conservatoire (1842-73) and editor, initially with her husband Aristide Farrenc (1794-1865), of Le trésor des pianistes, an anthology of 17th- and 18th-century music (23 vols., 1861-74). A flautist, music publisher and scholar, he was an advocate of early music and contributed to French periodicals and to Fétis's Biographie universelle (1860-65).

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