Rita Strohl

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She is the author of several vocal, symphonic and chamber music pieces. She was endorsed by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], [[Vincent d’Indy]] and [[Gabriel Fauré]]. [[Jane Bathori]] sang her ''Chansons de Bilitis'', and [[Pablo Casals]] played her music.{{cite web |title=La compositrice lorientaise Rita Strohl est à redécouvrir |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/guidel-56520/la-compositrice-lorientaise-rita-strohl-est-redecouvrir-4166387 |website=Ouest-France.fr |access-date=12 January 2024 |language=fr |date=13 April 2016}} Notably honoured{{how?|date=January 2025}} by [[Pierre Louÿs]] and [[Henri Duparc (composer)|Henri Duparc]], her music has gained renewed interest in recent years.
She is the author of several vocal, symphonic and chamber music pieces. She was endorsed by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], [[Vincent d’Indy]] and [[Gabriel Fauré]]. [[Jane Bathori]] sang her ''Chansons de Bilitis'', and [[Pablo Casals]] played her music.{{cite web |title=La compositrice lorientaise Rita Strohl est à redécouvrir |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/guidel-56520/la-compositrice-lorientaise-rita-strohl-est-redecouvrir-4166387 |website=Ouest-France.fr |access-date=12 January 2024 |language=fr |date=13 April 2016}} Notably honoured{{how?|date=January 2025}} by [[Pierre Louÿs]] and [[Henri Duparc (composer)|Henri Duparc]], her music has gained renewed interest in recent years.

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She created the short-lived La Grange Theatre in [[Bièvres, Essonne]] in 1912 with her second husband and with the financial support of [[Odilon Redon]], [[Gustave Fayet]] and others, performing lyrical works filled with mysticism and symbolism. It closed at the beginning of [[World War I]].


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
In 1888, she married the sub lieutenant Émile Strohl (1863-1900), giving birth to four children.
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In 1888, she married the sub lieutenant Émile Strohl (1863-1900) and took his name, giving birth to four children. After the death of Strohl, she married the master glassmaker {{ill|Richard Burgsthal|fr}} (pseudonym René Billa), a man almost 20 years her junior, in 1903.{{cite web|url=http://lepetitrenaudon.blogspot.com/2011/08/rita-strohl-le-reve-fou-de-la-grange-de.html|title=RITA STROHL : LE REVE FOU DE LA GRANGE DE BIEVRES|date=7 August 2011|website=Bon sens et Déraison|accessdate=23 June 2018}}


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After his death, she married the master glassmaker {{ill|Richard Burgsthal|fr}} (pseudonym René Billa), almost 20 years her junior, in 1903.{{cite web|url=http://lepetitrenaudon.blogspot.com/2011/08/rita-strohl-le-reve-fou-de-la-grange-de.html|title=RITA STROHL : LE REVE FOU DE LA GRANGE DE BIEVRES|date=7 August 2011|website=Bon sens et Déraison|accessdate=23 June 2018}}
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She created the short-lived La Grange Theatre in [[Bièvres, Essonne]] in 1912 with her second husband and with the financial support of [[Odilon Redon]], [[Gustave Fayet]] and other subscribers. It closed at the beginning of [[World War I]]. There, she performed lyrical works filled with mysticism and symbolism.


She divorced her second husband in 1930, and moved to Provence to live with her daughter and grandson.{{cite web|url=http://www.musiciennesaouessant.com/2011/compositrice.html|title=Rita Strohl, 1865-1941|website=Musiciennes à Ouessant|accessdate=23 June 2018|archive-date=28 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528134725/http://www.musiciennesaouessant.com/2011/compositrice.html|url-status=dead}}
She divorced him in 1930, and moved to [[Provence]] to live with her daughter and grandson.{{cite web|url=http://www.musiciennesaouessant.com/2011/compositrice.html|title=Rita Strohl, 1865-1941|website=Musiciennes à Ouessant|accessdate=23 June 2018|archive-date=28 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528134725/http://www.musiciennesaouessant.com/2011/compositrice.html|url-status=dead}}


== Works ==
== Works ==
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