Albert Jeanneret (Sound)

Albert Jeanneret, born February 7, 1886 in La Chaux-de-Fonds and died in 1973 in Corseaux, is a musician, composer and violinist from Neuchâtel. He is the brother of the architect Le Corbusier. Albert Jeanneret began studying violin and harmony with Georges-Albert Pantillon in La Chaux-de-Fonds, before continuing his training with Andreas Moser at the Königliche Hochschule in Berlin from 1900. In 1908, he obtained a first prize for virtuosity in Henri Marteau's class at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. At this time, Albert Jeanneret founded a society of young composers which included Jean Binet and Charles Faller. He left Geneva a year later to follow Émile Jaques-Dalcroze in Hellerau near Dresden in Germany, and taught rhythm in the institute that the latter developed. During the First World War, he returned to Switzerland and founded a string quartet, at the same time introducing contemporary music to the inhabitants of La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1919,...Read More