Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini

Biography

Jeannette Giampellegrini was born on 25 June 1938 in Differdange, in the south of Luxembourg, and spent her childhood in Niederkorn. She came from a family of laborers who had immigrated from Italy, where both her father’s and mother’s side were passionate about music. Her father, Antonio Giampellegrini, who was a steel worker at the HADIR steelworks in Differdange, had studied music at the music school in Esch/Alzette and the Conservatory in Luxembourg. He played double bass, saxophone and violin and was an orchestral musician in the Cercle Symphonique in Esch. His mother, Fernanda Gallo, an enamel painter at the Émaux de Longwy factory, loved singing. The male members of her extended family formed a dance orchestra that played the “Thé dansant” (foxtrot, tango, waltz) on Sunday afternoons until late at night.

Towards the end of the Second World War, her father began to teach his seven-year-old daughter music and bought her a piano so that she, as the only female member, could also play in the family orchestra. Barely two years later, he enrolled her in the Music School in Esch, where she attended Louis Petit’s solfège class and the piano class first of Eléonore Deloos and later of Jean Dax. She was awarded the “Premier Prix” at the age of 11 and the “Prix Supérieur” in piano at the age of 14, both times with the highest score. At Jean Dax’s request, she gave up playing ‘Light music’.

In 1953, the then director of the Paris Conservatoire and composer Claude Delvincourt discovered the young pianist’s talent during a stay in Luxembourg and invited her to attend the preparatory class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In October of the same year, the fifteen-year-old moved by herself to Paris, where she stayed in a boarding house for working, single women with the Soeurs de Saint-Vincent de Paul and was taught by Joseph Benvenuti and his assistant Simone Druilhe-Darrieulat. Her mother had knitted her fingerless gloves for the eight hours of piano practice in the unheated accommodation. After a two-year preparatory phase, during which she mainly honed her technique, she was officially accepted as a regular student at the Paris Conservatoire after passing two competitions. Her teachers included Joseph Benvenuti (piano), Elsa Barraine (sight-reading and “harmonie pratique”), Jean Hubeau (chamber music), René Duclos (solfège) and Norbert Dufourcq (music history). Her friend and flatmate at the boarding house was the later famous opera singer Andréa Guiot, whom she often accompanied during her singing studies. René Duclos also appreciated her sight-reading talents, so she regularly accompanied the solfège class at the conservatory. Jeannette Giampellegrini successfully completed her music studies in 1958.

She remained in Paris for two more years as a répétiteur at the Opéra comique, assisting the conductor Roberti Benzi in his debut performances of the opera Carmen and working with singers such as Jane Rhodes. She returned to Luxembourg in 1960, where she initially worked as a substitute teacher in various music schools. She quickly became a much sought-after piano accompanist and soloist and worked regularly with the RTL Orchestra, among others (see concert programs, press, music). She made numerous recordings at the music studio of Radio Luxembourg, including premieres of works by Claus Krumlovsky. The pianist is also the dedicatee of piano works (Claus Krumlovsky : Sonatine Op. 6.1; Walter Civitareale : Un salut lointain). Jeannette Giampellegrini was a permanent member of the Ensemble Onst Lidd, founded by composer Lou Koster, for 10 years (1963-1973). Together with four professors from the Conservatory of Esch she founded the Quintette luxembourgeois, a wind quartet with piano of international renown.

After being employed as a substitute teacher at the Music School in Esch (later the Conservatoire) for almost three years from December 1962, she was first given a permanent contract as an assistant piano teacher in 1965, before finally taking up a professorship in piano in 1967. In 1968, she married Jean-Pierre Braun, a military musician, founder of the Soleuvre Youth Orchestra and conductor of the Harmonie de Soleuvre, whom she had previously taught piano. Two years later, their son Jean-Claude was born, who is now the conductor of the Luxembourg Military Orchestra and, like his father, led the Harmonie de Soleuvre for more than 20 years.

She was and still is very popular as a piano teacher with her own holistic and child-orientated methodology. She was also instrumental in the development of standardized piano curricula for all music schools in the country. Her students included Walter Civitareale, Isabelle Dominicy (later wife of Jean-Claude Braun and mother of Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini’s two grandchildren), Daniel Feis, Jeannine Huybrechts, Astrid Koemptgen, Astrid Künzer, Ria Lucas, Yolande Ludwig, Lynn Orazi, André Reichling, Claire Scholtes, Pierre Weber and Marcel Wengler. Isabelle Dominicy, Ria Lucas, Daniel Feis and Lynn Orazi work today as professors at the Conservatoire in Esch. In autumn 1989, she was appointed deputy director, a post she held until her retirement on 1 October 1998. On 8 April 2008, she was the first woman to be awarded the Prix du mérite culturel of the town of Esch/Alzette for her musical achievements and on 14 December 2010, the mayor Georges Engel and the president of the cultural commission Simone Asselborn-Bintz awarded the Braun-Giampellegrini couple the Sassenheim Culture Prize for their commitment to the musical culture of the municipality. At the age of 85, Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini still plays the piano every day and continues to be appointed as a member of international juries in Metz, Brussels and Nancy, among other places.

(For the individual stages of her life and career, see the film interviews by Anne Schiltz with Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini and the text document “Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini erënnert sech”.)

d’Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini erënnert sech

Ausgewielten Auszich aus engem Gespréich mam Lynn Orazi,

gefilmt ënnert der Regie vum Anne Schiltz

Text translated with the help of DeepL.com) and curation of the webpage: Danielle Roster (upload 08.03.2024)

Creation of the digital archive JBG: Džeila Adrovic, Kenza Kiwy, Sonja Kmec, Danielle Roster

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Claus Krumlovsky: First movement of the Sonata no 1 for piano

Jeannette Braun-Giampellgrini (piano).

Recording Radio Luxembourg, 26.2.1971

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Robert Schumann: Leis’ rudern hier, text by Ferdinand Freiligrath

Raymond Henn (tenor), Jeannette Giampellegrini (piano).

CD Raymond Henn: Frühe Aufnahmen. 1961-1970. Live Recording, 25.5.1962

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Jos Kinzé: Second movement of the Serenade für Streicher und Klavier

Jeannette Giampellegrini (piano), RTL Orchestra conducted by Carlo Kaufhold

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 27.08.1964

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: First movement of the Quintett KV 452

Quinette Luxembourgeois

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 25.01.1965

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Franz Schubert: Die Forelle, text by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart

Sylvie Orazi (soprano), Jeannette Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 22.03.1965

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Claus Krumlovsky: Sonata pour hautbois et piano

Norbert Mattern (oboe), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 14.03.1969

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Henri Pensis: Idylle, text by Carlo Zimmer

Venant Arend (tenor), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 29.1.1971

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Claus Krumlovsky: Vif, third movement of the Sonatina for Trumpet, bass clarinet and piano

Lucien Lauer (trumpet), Marcel Heinen (bass clarinet), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 12.2.1973

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Jean Françaix: Scherzando, second movement of the Concerto for clarinet (1967)

Fernand Michaux (clarinet), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 22.10.1973

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Lou Koster: Wenn der Mond die Hügel verbrennt* (in: Hochsommer: Two songs on texts by Anise Koltz)*

Béby Kohl-Thommes (soprano), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 30.05.1979

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Mikis Theodorakis: Andante mosso – Allegro, third movement, Trio for violin, cello and piano

Gisèle Nagy (violin), André Navau (cello), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 09.06.1987

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Claude Debussy: La Chevelure, text by Pierre Louÿs, in: Trois Chansons de Bilitis

Annette Theis-Bisdorff (alto), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 15.10.1990

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Manuel De Falla: Nana (anonym) in: Sept Chansons Espagnoles

Annette Theis-Bisdorff (alto), Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini (piano)

Recording Radio Luxemburg, 15.10.1990

Photos

<strong>Jeannette Giamepellegrini in 1956 in Paris, Quai de Valmy, Metro Jean Jaurès</strong> private archives JBG

<strong>Side-reading class of Elsa Barraine at the Music Conservatory in Paris, Jeannette Giampellegrini: sixth from left, 1956</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Piano class of Joseph Benvenuti at the Music Conservatory in Paris, Jeannette Giampellegrini: first row, third from left, January 1957</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini and violinist Thérèse Divry, in the artist’s lodge of the Théâtre communal de Genève, 05.10.1962</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>The pianist Jeannette Giampellegrini with the soprano Josette Knaff-Jacoby, second row from left to right: tenor Robert Wagner, bass Guillaume Schmitz and composer Josy Asselborn, January 1963</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Jeannette Giampellegrini, concert at the Grand Casino in Differdange, [12.12.1964] </strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Concert at the Grand Casino in Differdange, with the Harmonie de Differdange, [12.12.1964]</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>The young pianist Jeannette Giampellegrini, n.d.</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini at the piano with bass Guillaume Schmitz (on the left), soprano Sylvie Orazi (in the centre) and tenor Eugène Bley (on the right), n.d. </strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Quintette Luxembourgeois : Jeannette Braun Giampellegrini with (L to R) François Soumer, Fernand Michaux, Mathias Draut and Jules Strasser, n.d.</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Ensemble Onst Lidd: Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini at the piano with soprano Béby Kohl-Thommes and (second row, L to R) barytone Laurent Koster, composer Lou Koster and tenor Venant Arend, n.d.</strong> Archives Lou Koster CID Fraen an Gender

<strong>Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini and Jean-Pierre Kemmer at the organ at Bonnevoie, n.d.</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Jeannette Giampellgrini in 2003</strong> photographed by Marco Schroeder

Correspondence

<strong>Letter from Madame Lepeuve, solfège professor at the Music Conservatory in Paris, to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Sargé-sur-Braye, 31.08.1955</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Letter from Simone Druilhe-Darrieulat, assistant at the piano class of Joseph Benvenuti, to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Paris, 19.09.1956</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Letter from Madame Traus, piano professor, to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Luxembourg, 24.05.1957</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Letter from Madame Lepeuve, solfège professor at the Music Conservatory in Paris, to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Saint-Cybardeaux, 05.09.1957</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Letter from Sister Marguerite Marie to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Paris, 08.09.1957 </strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Postcard from the teacher and composer Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Paris, 03.01.1959</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Postcard from the teacher and composer Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Paris, n.d.</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Postcard from the teacher and composer Elsa Barraine (1910-1999) to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Paris, 06.02.1959</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Postcard from the composer, pianist and teacher Jean Hubeau (1917-1992) to Jeannette Giampellegrini, Royau 3 September [no year]</strong> Private archives JBG

Personal objects

<strong>Piano competition at the Music Conservatory in Paris, 14.06.1958</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Certificate of admission to the Paris Music Conservatoire as a piano student, school year 1958-1959</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Letter from the Music School in Esch to Jeannette Giampellegrini, inviting her to participate in the jury, 25.05.1959</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Enrolment card of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, school year 1959-1960</strong> Private archives 1960

<strong>Membership card for the Mutuelle Nationale des Étudiants de France, 1960-1961</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Contract between RTL and Jeannette Giampelegrini for a musical performance, 16.10.1963 </strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Drawing by the Luxembourgish painter René Weyland, with a personal dedication, on the occasion of a concert by Jeannette Giampellegrini on 03.10.1964 at the theatre in Esch/Alzette</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Flyer of the Quintette Luxembourgeois, n.d.</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Program of a concert in the Concertgebouw [Amsterdam], 05.02.1971, with a note [by the poet] Isabelle Oberweis</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Invitation to the reception on 07.11.1972 on the occasion of the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution by the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Calling card of Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini as deputy director of the Conservatoire de Musique in Esch/Alzette (1989-1998)</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Brochure, published on the occasion of the award of the ‘Prix du mérite culturel’ of the city of Esch/Alzette to Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini on 08.08.2008</strong> © Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette

Concert programmes

<strong>Concert program, Cercle Symphonique under the direction of Pierre Cao in Esch/Alzette, 14.03.1963</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Concert program with Luxembourgish symphonic music by the RTL Orchestra under the direction of Carlo Kaufhold with Jeannette Giampellgrini as soloist, 17.10.1963</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Flyer ‘Grand récital de violon et de piano’ by Thérèse Divry and Jeannette Giampellegrini in Differdange, 10.11.1963</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Concert program by the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg with the soloist Jeannette Giampellegrini on 24.01.1964, on the programme <i>Mouvements pour piano et orchestre</i> by Claus Krumlowsky</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Invitation card for an orchestral concert under the direction of Pierre Cao with Jeannette Giampellegrini as soloist in Beethoven’s <i>Choral Fantasy</i>, 03.10.1964</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Program of a recital by Renée Bertemes-Roeder, accompanied by Jeannette Giampellegrini, Luxembourg State Museum, 07.01.1966</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Program of a recital by bass singer Bruno Wyzuj, accompanied by Jeannette Giampellegrini, Luxembourg City Theatre, 08.01.1965, with personal dedication</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Program of a concert by the Quintette Luxembourgeois, Bruges, 19.02.1970</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Program of a concert by the Quintette Luxembourgeois, Amsterdam-Zuid, 05.02.1971</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Program of a concert given by the Grand-Ducal Military Band with Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini as soloist, Soleuvre, 20.12.1986</strong> Private archives JBG

<strong>Concert program with works for two pianos, Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini and Daniel Feis, Conservatoire d’Esch/Alzette, 04.02.1996</strong> Private archives JBG

Press

<strong>Review of a gala concert of 26.01.1963 in Dudelange with the pianist Jeannette Giampellegrini</strong> <i>Le Républicain Lorrain </i>(28.01.1963) Private archives JBG

<strong>Concert by the Cercle symphonique under the direction of Pierre Cao and with Jeannette Giampellegrini as piano soloist in Esch/Alzette, 14.12.1963 </strong><i>Luxemburger Wort </i>(19.12.1963), p. 4 Private archives JBG © 2024 Mediahuis Luxembourg S.A. – Journaliste : G. – Tous droits réservés – Des licences d’utilisation de droits d’auteur peuvent être obtenues à travers www.luxorr.lu

<strong>Review of a concert by the Ensemble Onst Lidd with Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini as soloist and piano accompanist </strong><i>Luxemburger Wort </i>(11.01.1964), p. 4 Private archives JBG © 2024 Mediahuis Luxembourg S.A. – Journaliste : Yay. – Tous droits réservés – Des licences d’utilisation de droits d’auteur peuvent être obtenues à travers www.luxorr.lu

<strong>Opening Concert of the Théâtre municipal d’Esch-sur-Alzette, 03.10.1964, on the programme works by Beethoven et Honegger </strong><i>Luxemburger Wort</i> (02.10.1964), p. 4. [Digitized by the National Library of Luxembourg, https://persist.lu/ark:70795/twdgn0gqq/pages/4] © 2024 Mediahuis Luxembourg S.A. – Journaliste : lg. – Tous droits réservés – Des licences d’utilisation de droits d’auteur peuvent être obtenues à travers www.luxorr.lu

<strong>Review of a gala concert by the Brass Band of the Conservatoire de Musique in Esch with Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini from 22.10.1976 at the theatre in Esch </strong><i>Tageblatt </i>(28.10.1976) Private archives JBG © 2024 Editpress Luxembourg S.A. – Journaliste : Vincent –Tous droits réservés – Des licences d’utilisation de droits d’auteur peuvent être obtenues à travers www.luxorr.lu

<strong>Review of a concert of 01.12.1984 in Darmstadt given by the Merck Chamber Orchestra, the wind quintette of the Conservatoire de Musique Esch-sur-Alzette with the assistance of Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini </strong><i>Darmstädter Echo </i>(03.12.1984) Private archives JBG

Video

Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini about music in her family

Excerpt from a conversation with Lynn Orazi on 5th November 2021.

Director: Anne Schiltz, camera: Sascha Helsper, MEDIACentre, sound: Yves Melchior, CNA, Interview: Anne Schiltz and Danielle Roster

Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini on how she moved to Paris to study piano

Excerpt from a conversation with Lynn Orazi on 5th November 2021.

Director: Anne Schiltz, camera: Sascha Helsper, MEDIACentre, sound: Yves Melchior, CNA, Interview: Anne Schiltz and Danielle Roster

Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini on her piano education in Paris

Excerpt from a conversation with Lynn Orazi on 5th November 2021.

Director: Anne Schiltz, camera: Sascha Helsper, MEDIACentre, sound: Yves Melchior, CNA, Interview: Anne Schiltz and Danielle Roster

Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini about music lessons with elsa Barraine

Excerpt from a conversation with Lynn Orazi on 5th November 2021.

Director: Anne Schiltz, camera: Sascha Helsper, MEDIACentre, sound: Yves Melchior, CNA, Interview: Anne Schiltz and Danielle Roster

Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini about makong music with Lou koster

Excerpt from a conversation with Lynn Orazi on 5th November 2021.

Director: Anne Schiltz, camera: Sascha Helsper, MEDIACentre, sound: Yves Melchior, CNA, Interview: Anne Schiltz and Danielle Roster

Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini shows her first piano sheet music

Excerpt from a conversation with Lynn Orazi on 5th November 2021.

Director: Anne Schiltz, camera: Sascha Helsper, MEDIACentre, sound: Yves Melchior, CNA, Interview: Anne Schiltz and Danielle Roster

Television

HELEN Jeannette Braun-Giampellegrini Recordings

Concerts