Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène

Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène (Léontine-Marie Pène) was a French pianist, who premiered major works by César Franck, Vincent d'Indy and others.

[3] On 16 December 1886, in Brussels, Bordes-Pène was the co-performer, along with the dedicatee Eugène Ysaÿe, in the premiere public performance of César Franck's Violin Sonata in A major, which began early evening, being the finale to a long program that started at 3 pm.

However, the gallery in which the performance took place permitted no artificial lighting for fear of damaging the paintings.

[4] Also in 1886, in Paris, she was the soloist at the first performance of Vincent d'Indy's Symphony on a French Mountain Air, which was dedicated to her.

[5][6] She championed other new French piano music, by composers such as Emmanuel Chabrier, Gabriel Fauré, Henri Duparc, Ernest Chausson, her brother-in-law Charles Bordes and others.