Pauline Viardot] She wrote brilliant operettas in collaboration with Tourguenief, but they were never published and were performed only in private.

One anecdote will show her versatility as a composer.

She was a friend of Chopin and Liszt and her tastes were strongly futuristic.

M.Viardot, on the contrary, was a reactionary in music.

He even found Beethoven too advanced.