Biography

Lucie Vellère was born in Brussels

Brussels

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, and began piano lessons with her father at the age of six. She studied with Emile Chaumont for violin, Paul Miry for harmony, and Joseph Jongen

Joseph Jongen

Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.-Biography:Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years...

for composition. She was awarded the 1957 "Prix du Brabant" and received an award from the American Section of the International Council for Women for her compositions. She made her primary living as a pharmacist and composed as a hobby.

Works

Vellère composed works for voice, solo instruments, chamber ensembles, chorus and orchestra in a traditional style. Selected works include:

• Chanson nocturne (for violin and piano) 1920
• String Quartet No. 1 in d minor 1937
• String Quartet No. 2 in e minor 1942
• Piano Trio 1947
• Fantaisie en trois mouvement (for violin and piano) 1950
• Quator à cordes 1951
• String Quartet No. 3 1951
• Nocturne (for cello and piano) 1954
• Petite Symphony 1956
• Arlequinade (for trumpet and piano) 1959
• Bagatelles (String Trio) 1960
• Dialogue (for oboe and piano) 1960
• Intermède (for flute and piano) 1960
• Divertissement (for violin and piano) 1962
• String Quartet No. 4 1962
• Quartet (for 4 clarinets) 1963
• Quartet (for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon) 1964
• Deux essais (for trumpet, horn and trombone) 1965

Discography

• Quatuor a Cordes, No. 3 (string quartet), Leonarda CD #LE336
• Vive la Différence: String Quartets by 5 Women from 3 Continents, Leonarda CD (1997)