Jeanette Chéro, ''née'' ''Christiane Roscher'', (4 April 1927) is a German artist and representative of the literary

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in Germany.

Life

Born in Dresden, Chéro grew up with classical music and started composing at the age of nine. Her song cycles were sung under her maiden name by famous performers (among others

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, Kammersänger

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, Professor

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, Werner Faulhaber). In her hometown Dresden she played in numerous concerts and live radio broadcasts together with the outstanding violinist Anneliese Möhner. Chéro studied piano, composition and singing in Dresden and later took acting and ballet lessons in Berlin. She married the general

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in 1957. In Berlin, she worked for several years at the

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, for which she wrote many choral arrangements. She performed as a pianist and accompanist for her own song cycles at various radio stations until she discovered her love for song and later for literary chanson. She performs her chansons herself on the grand piano in full-length concerts. She wrote numerous commissioned compositions for the WDR and German re-enactments of English, French and Italian titles for the Edition Akkord. Her classical song cycles have been published several times in orchestral version in

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(Russia) for performance. Evening concerts with exclusively own works took place in the festival weeks in Bad Kreuznach, in the Cologne Senftöpfchen (1980), in the community centre "Bergischer Löwe" in

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(1981, 1988, 2000 with Jakob Poiesz), in the Brühl Galerie am Schloß (1982), in the Hamburger Podium (1982), in the in Rösrath (1984, 1995), at the Oberstdorf Cultural Days (1989, 1990), at the international

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n (1994), in Koblenz and in St. Wendel (Saarland), as well as solo performances with her own chansons in Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hilden and Bad Kreuznach. In addition, there were TV appearances with his own works, for example at

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's "Café in Takt" and in the programme "Auf dem Kriegspfad - Sinn und Unsinn der Atomrüstung", a production of the WDR. In several episodes of the series "Historisches Kabarett 1919-1945" (also a WDR production,) she could be seen and heard, among others with interpretations of chansons by

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. At the (Conservatory of the City of Cologne) she was a piano teacher and for many years head of a chanson class. Her students included the conductor and composer

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and the pianists of the

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Rolf Lammers (later ) and Dieter "Joko" Jaenisch. Chéro is a leading representative of the literary chanson, which is rare in Germany.

Recordings

* Jeanette Chéro: ''Deutsche Chansons'', Ekke-Musik, 1981 * ''Music Is All For Me - Béla Mavrák singt Songs von Jeanette Chéro'', Musikverlag Termidor, 2015

References

External links

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Jeanette Chéro – Das Künstlerportrait (Teil 1)

Jeanette Chéro – Das Künstlerportrait (Teil 2)

Jeanette Chéro – Das Künstlerportrait (Teil 3) mit ihrem Chanson ''Super''
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