Vignery, Jane

Preface

Vignery, Jane – Sonata for violin and piano op. 8 (score & part)

​(Ghent, 11 April 1913 – Luttre,15 August 1974)
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(1942-1943)

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​Born Jeanne Emilie Virginie Vignery in Ghent, Jane Vignery was the only child of Palmyre Buyst and Marcel Vignery. Her mother Palmyre Buyst (1875-1957) was a pianist and composer and gave her daughter her first music lessons. But music also ran in the family on the side of her father, an engineer: her grandfather Emile Vignery (1852-1926) composed piano music, among other things, and conducted a brass band and a harmony in Bouillon. Three of his four children were actively involved in music: Alice composed songs, Marcel (Jane’s father) played various wind instruments and Denise successfully studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, where she was taught by Palmyre Buyst, her later sister-in-law.
Jane Vignery studied at the Ghent Conservatory under renowned composers such as Léon Torck, Léon Moeremans (harmony) and Martin Lunssens (counterpoint and fugue). In 1930, she decided to study at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, which had attracted students from all over the world to the French capital since its foundation in 1919 by Alfred Cortot. There she received violin lessons from three eminent French violinists, most notably Marcel Chailley, Jules Boucherit and Jacques Thibaud. In Paris, she obtained the Diplôme d’exécution de violon (1932), the Diplôme d’études françaises de l’Institut féminin de l’enseignement supérieur (1933) and the Licence de l’enseignement (1936). For this diploma, she wrote a personal thesis entitled De la sensibilité de l’artiste en général et de ses moyens d’expression pour le violiniste. In 1938, she also obtained the Licence de concert for violin before a jury that included Charles Münch and Jean Fournier. Additionally, Vignery studied harmony with Nadia Boulanger and Jacques de la Presle, and is also said to have taken music analysis in Paul Dukas’ class. …

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