Jeanine Rueff

Jeanine Rueff (5 February 1922 – c. September 1999) was a French composer and music educator.

In 1948 she won second place in the Grand Prix de Rome with Odette Gartenlaub.

She also composed the chamber opera Le Femme d'Enée (1954), a concerto for four saxophones and a Symphonietta (1956).

The ensemble Saxallegro (with Hannes Kawrza, saxophone, and Florian Pagitsch, organ) recorded her 1997 Chanson et Passepied together with works by Eugène Bozza, Pierre Max Dubois, and Jacques Ibert and the recording was issued on a CD.

[1][2] Rueff was buried on 22 September 1999, and the saxophone quartet Ledieu 2000 gave a concert in her memory.