Andree Rochat

Andree Aeschlimann Rochat (12 January 1900 – 8 January 1990) was a Swiss composer, music critic, and pianist who used the pseudonym Jean Durand. She spent more than forty years in Milan, where she wrote music reviews in several magazines, which were later published as a collection. Rochat composed music for small ensembles, and was awarded the GEDOK prize. She destroyed many of her compositions. Life Rochat was born in Geneva, Switzerland, to Julie Helene Lavater and Ernest Auguste Rochat, a pastor. She married Erhard Aeschlimann, a publisher. In 1941, the reviews were published as a collection entitled Journal d’un Amateur de Musique. 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, *Improvisation, opus 34 (flute, piano and drums) *Tre Liriche, opus 19 (soprano and piano; text by Antonio Negri) References