Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert

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Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert was a French pianist and composer who lived from the late 19th to the early 20th century. About a dozen of her works are preserved by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and she also worked as a piano teacher.

Her exact birth and death dates vary in sources, but one listing gives May 15, 1874 to July 7, 1964. She was born May 15, 1874, to Marguerite-Gabrielle Ibry and Pierre-Edouard-Antony Alombert; her father was a clerk of justice, placing her in Parisian aristocracy. She studied with Mlle. Mary Moll and with Pompilio Sudessi. Deductions in her works show Menuet champêtre and Pavane-régence dedicated to Mlle Moll, and Violetta! to M. Pompilio Sudessi.

Célestin Bourdeau, a choir director and conductor who ran an orchestra at the Casino of Cabourg, supported local composers like Alombert. Bourdeau’s services, used to read new compositions, could be hired for about one hundred francs. Alombert married Louis Besson in 1888; he was a music critic, composer, librettist, and editor of L'Événement. After his death, she remarried in 1900 to René-Louis-Joseph-Henri de Sévelinges, an architect from a noble family. The surviving works date from 1893 to 1895, and her career as a piano teacher ended in 1899.