and you embellish them. The piano was a relatively new instrument when Boccherini wrote his Six Sonatas op 5, but Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy inspired him to write the keyboard part specifically for the new instrument, including dynamic markings. When the sonatas were published in 1769, the reference to the pianoforte was replaced by "harpsichord" and many dynamic markings were removed because the harpsichord was still the dominant keyboard instrument, and the publisher had to adapt the sonatas for commercial reasons. Charles Burney wrote of her, She is one of the greatest lady-players on the harpsichord in Europe. This lady (...) plays the most difficult pieces with great precision, taste and feeling (...). She likewise composes, and she was so obliging as to play several of her own pieces both on the harpsichord and pianoforte accompanied with the violin by M. Pagin, who is reckoned in France the best scholar of Tartini ever made. In 1777, she composed the Marche des insurgents (March of the Insurgents) to celebrate an American victory in the American Revolutionary War. Works 88 pieces have been listed to date. 1775-1783: Trio pour trois clavecins en ut-mineur (ou pour piano anglais, piano allemand et clavecin). (Trio for three harpsichords in C-minor; or for English piano, German piano, and harpsichord) Premier recueil d'œuvres pour clavecin ou pianoforte avec 15 sonates pour pianoforte et violon. (First collection of works for harpsichord or pianoforte with 15 sonatas for pianoforte and violin) Sonate en la mineur pour pianoforte. (Sonata in A minor for pianoforte) Trio pour pianoforte, violon et violoncelle en sol mineur. (Trio for piano, violin, and cello in G minor) Quatuor pour clavecin, deux violons et contrebasse en mi mineur. (Quartet for harpsichord, two violins, and double bass in E minor) 1777: Marche des insurgents, (March of the Insurgents, which was first published in an arrangement for brass quintet in 1992 by the Hildegard Publishing Company) 1779-1785: Duos pour clavecin et pianoforte. (Duets for harpsichord and pianoforte). In popular culture Madame Brillon appears in the 1939 children's book Ben and Me by Robert Lawson, about Benjamin Franklin's time in Paris, where she is the subject of an elaborate, humorous full-page illustration. However she does not appear in Disney's 1953 Academy Award-nominated animated short film adaptation of the book. Bibliography Christine de Pas, Madame Brillon de Jouy et son salon : Une musicienne des Lumières, intime de Benjamin