Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Jenny Le Saunier fonds
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on contents of fonds.
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
0.01 m of textual records. -- 2 photographs.
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Jenny (Marie Chantille Augustine) Lerouge Le Saunier, also known as Madame Le Saunier, was born in Brussels, Belgium on August 25, 1886. She studied music under such well-known teachers as Isidore Philipp at the Paris Conservatory, and with Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in Berlin and began to tour and perform concerts in Europe. Le Saunier came to Canada at the beginning of 20th century, when her father was transferred to Ottawa, Ontario by the French government. She began touring once again and performed in front of the Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Governor-General Earl Grey. Towards the end of 1907 she moved to Red Deer, Alberta, where she married Charles Le Saunier in 1909 and started teaching piano. Ernest MacMillan convinced her to move to Edmonton, Alberta where she opened a studio in 1922 and remained until her death. Many of her students won international acclaim, such as Donna Frazer and Geraldine Mason. Le Saunier was decorated as an Officier de L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 1952 by the French ambassador to Canada and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta in 1966, and a citation by the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers in 1967. She died in 1971, survived by a son, Michael Le Saunier, a brother, Camille Le Rouge, and a granddaughter, Suzanne M. Le Saunier.
Custodial history
Suzanne M. Le Saunier, a granddaughter of Jenny Le Saunier, deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1971.
Scope and content
The records pertain to the musical career of Jenny Le Saunier and include a citation and an honorary degree, a newspaper clipping, a programme, and two photographs of Jenny Le Saunier.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Language of material
- The material is in English.
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Access conditions: none. Use conditions: permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
No inventory/file list is available.
Associated materials
Accruals
Further accruals are not expected.
General note
For the French version of this description clik <a href="https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=SL0560&dv=True&deptID=1" target="_blank">here</a>. Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992) and the Edmonton Journal of March 15, 1971. This fonds was donated at the same time and in the same accession as PR0561 Suzanne M. Le Saunier collection.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1971.0237<br><br>
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Le Saunier, Jenny (Subject)