ABSTRACT
Emily Brontë was possibly the most talented and certainly the most determined musician in a family where music was greatly appreciated and encouraged. She was not simply musical, but a serious student of music, in a way that (as some writers have suggested) influenced her artistic development. According to Ellen Nussey, she was a virtuoso pianist, and her sizeable collection of annotated sheet music can be perused at Haworth-testifying to a catholic taste in both baroque and romantic styles of composition, and to her fondness for duets played with Anne and for orchestral works arranged for the pianist.1 Concerts local to Haworth were regular and of high quality. M. Heger arranged piano lessons for Emily with a teacher from the Brussels Conservatory, and even more significantly, allowed her to teach music to his younger pupils.2
