Jeanine Rueff

Jeanine Rueff (5 February 1922 – c. September 1999) was a French composer and music educator. Biography Jeanine Rueff was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Tony Aubin, Henri Challan, Jean and Noël Gallon, and Henri Busser. During her time at the Paris Conservatory, she was awarded first prizes in harmony, fugue, counterpoint, composition and history of music. In 1948 she won second place in the Grand Prix de Rome with Odette Gartenlaub. Rueff was a collaborative pianist at the Conservatoire de Paris beginning in 1950, accompanying students in the saxophone class of Marcel Mule and in the clarinet class of Ulysse Delécluse. She taught solfège, sight-singing, and aural skills there from 1960 to 1971. Later, Rueff also taught a harmony course, continuing until 1988. Her long tenure at the Conservatoire de Paris suggests she influenced many other musicians. Her former pupils include many conservatory directors and teachers in regional and national schools and universities. Rueff’s most famous pupil was Jean-Michel Jarre, a pioneer of French electronic music. She wrote extensively for saxophone, saxhorn, euphonium, baritone horn, clarinet and cornet. Her compo