Grotte de Fingal
Also known as: Grotte de Fingal, Fingal, Grotte
La Grotte de Fingal
Piece performed at a concert of pupils of Mme Damoreau in Nice on 17 April 1875: «deux autres paires de demoiselles jouèrent "La Grotte de Fingal"» (031.0261). Marie is unimpressed by the evening (the pupils «ont chanté vilainement»).
The title is the French name of Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture Die Hebriden (Op. 26, «Fingal's Cave»), inspired by his 1829 visit to Staffa; first performed in London on 14 May 1832, published 1833, and known under the title Fingalshöhle in the Breitkopf & Härtel edition of 1834 (Wikipedia, «The Hebrides (overture)»). That the girls played it in pairs points to a four-hand piano arrangement; Marie does not name the composer or the arrangement, so this is an inference from the title.
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