The Life and Early Years of Aloïse Corbaz In the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, Aloïse Corbaz entered a world of modest means in 1886. Her early years were marked by a profound loss when she was only eleven years old, losing her mother to the exhaustion of multiple pregnancies. This early hardship left her to grow up in a household where her older sister, Marguerite, took charge of the family with an iron fist. Despite these domestic struggles, a certain musicality seemed to run through the family blood; many of her kin were drawn to song or the playing of instruments. Aloïse herself posses…