Augusta Holmès - La Nuit et l'amour

Augusta Holmès was an Irish composer in the second half of the 19th century.  She broke many rules of the day: she moved to Paris and became a French citizen.  Never married, she lived with a poet, one who was a married man.  And she wrote music, in an age when that wasn't done by women.  This ruffled some feathers in the musical world: Camille Saint-Saëns wrote that she was an "extremist".

But she wrote some very nice music.  This tone poem is quite lovely.