Ann Valentine

Ann Valentine (11 January 1762 – 13 October 1842 or 13 October 1845 Her father John Valentine (1730–91) was a great-nephew of the composer Robert Valentine. John Valentine was a composer, music teacher, and musician. Another uncle, Henry Valentine, was an oboist and ran a music shop in Leicester. Ann’s younger sister Sarah (1771–1843) was an organist at St Martin’s Church in Leicester from 1800, and composed at least one work, The British March and Quickstep for the Pianoforte. These concerts were promoted by the new construction of organs. Ann would play organ concertos, and harpsicord lessons by Handel. In 1790 she published a set of ten sonatas for harpsichord or piano with violin or flute accompaniment. She continued to publish music, although only some of it has survived; the ten sonatas and an arrangement of the strathspey Monny Musk are available in a modern edition. When her father died in 1791 she would continue in his work, however she chose to compose more music for “ladies” that being piano music unlike what her father had composed. *Le cheval de course, a Favorite Divertimento for the Piano Forte *Ye Gentlest Gales. Written by a Lady on the Death of Mr. Henry Kirk Whit