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Bigot, Marie (1786–1820)| Alsatian pianist, wife of the librarian to Count Rasumovsky in Vienna, and a friend of Haydn and Beethoven; she reportedly played the Beethoven's ‘Appassionata’ sonata at sight. In 1809 she and her husband went to Paris, but he was taken prisoner at Milan in the war of 1812 and she had to give poorly paid lessons. Mendelssohn was her pupil in 1816. |
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