Janine Reding
Janine Reding (Brussels, 21 November 1920 – Monaco, 31 December 2015) was a Belgian pianist and pedagogue. Biography Janine Reding was the daughter of Fernand Reding, lawyer and editor-in-chief of the Brussels daily newspaper L'Éventail, and Yvonne Guidé (1892-1932), daughter of the oboist and opera manager Guillaume Guidé. She grew up in Brussels’ privileged circles. Her mother Yvonne, was an accomplished & well-known musician, and as a child she heard a number of prominent pianists and composers playing on the Pleyel grand piano in the family salon in Rue Américaine. Reding began to study piano at six, becoming at ten the youngest student of Arthur De Greef who usually only taught adults. When De Greef died in 1940, she continued her musical studies with Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and German pianist Kurt Leimer. Reding gave her first public recital at the age of 17 at Brussels Charlier Museum where, in spite of a blackout, she carried on performing to thunderous applause. In November 1939, she entered the newly created Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel where she studied harmony with René Moulaert, music history with Roger Bragard, acoustics with Monfort, philosophy with Philippe Devaux, art history with Paul Fierens, and counterpoint, fugue