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The success of Farrenc’s Nonet in E flat, op 38, in 1849, brought her equal pay as a Professor at the Paris Conservatoire. She wrote her Violin Sonata in A, op 39, in 1850, and went on to write the first Sextet for piano and wind in 1852. Two Piano Trios followed a couple of years later. There was some rivalry between the opera divas Giulia Grisi and Pauline Viardot (1821-1910). That year Viardot met Gounod in Rome, which led to his composing the opera Sappho for her in 1851.