Andree Rochat

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Andree Aeschlimann Rochat (12 January 1900 - 8 January 1990) [1] was a Swiss composer, [2] music critic, [3] and pianist [4] who used the pseudonym Jean Durand. [5]

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Rochat was born in Geneva, Switzerland [6] to Julie Helene Lavater and Ernest Auguste Rochat, a pastor. She married Erhard Aeschlimann, a publisher. [3] Rochat studied music at the Geneva Conservatory and in Ascona, Switzerland; Milan, Italy; and at the Paris Conservatory. Her teachers included Rinaldo Renzo Bossi, Emile Jacques Dalcroze, Andre Gedalge, Giacomo Orefice, Vladimir Vogel, and Ernst Wolff. [3] [4]

Rochat lived in Milan from 1922 to 1964, where she published music reviews in several magazines under the pseudonym Jean Durand. In 1941, the reviews were published as a collection entitled Journal d'un Amateur de Musique. [3] [7]

Rochat composed mostly atonal music for small ensembles. In 1961, her composition Musica per Archi, opus 26, received the GEDOK (Gemeinschaft deutscher und oesterreichischer Künstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen; Community of German and Austrian Women Artists and Art Friends) prize. Although she composed works through at least opus 34, [4] she destroyed many of her compositions, saying that she “did not want to burden anyone with them.” In 1965, she moved to Zurich, where she joined the Swiss Musicians' Association and lived until her death in 1990. [3] [7]

Some of Rochat’s compositions have survived; several were published by Carisch. [4] They include:

Chamber

Piano

Vocal

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  2. ↑ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice. A reference publication in women's studies. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 113. ISBN   978-0-8161-8498-9.
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  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). p. 590. ISBN   978-0-9617485-0-0.
  5. ↑ Drone, Jeanette Marie (2007). Musical AKAs: assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. pp. 319, 464. ISBN   978-0-8108-5739-1. OCLC   62858081.
  6. ↑ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press. p. 142. ISBN   978-0-8108-1138-6.
  7. 1 2 "Aeschlimann, Andrée". zbcollections.ch. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
  8. ↑ Boenke, H. Alais (1988-10-19). Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 103. ISBN   978-0-313-36831-8.
  9. ↑ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1963). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
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