Jozef De Beenhouwer
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Jozef De Beenhouwer is a Belgian
(Flemish
) pianist
, music teacher
and musicologist.
. In 1964 he began studying with Lode Backx, at first privately; later, after graduating from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
as a pharmacist
(1970), at the Queen Elisabeth College of Music at Waterloo
, from which he graduated in 1974, and at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp, which granted him the “Hoger Diploma”, its highest degree, summa cum laude
in 1975. Another major influence on Jozef De Beenhouwer was David Kimball, with whom he took private lessons in Florence
between 1991 and 1998.
As a soloist, both in works for piano solo and in works with orchestra, he has played concerts and made radio and television recordings in many European countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, in South-Korea and in the United States. He has accompanied singers like Ria Bollen, Nina Stemme
, Robert Holl and Werner Van Mechelen. As a chamber musician he has played with Belgian musicians like the clarinetist Walter Boeykens
, the pianist Daniel Blumenthal
, the violinist Guido Deneve, the violist Leo Deneve, the cellist Edmond Baeyens, the Spiegel Quartet, as well as international partners like the violinists Ning Kam
and Alexander Kramarov, the violist Hartmut Lindemann, the cellist Marien van Staalen and the Panocha Quartet
. With Kees Hülsmann and Marien van Staalen he forms the Robert Schumann Trio.
For ten years (1986–1996) Jozef De Beenhouwer was an official accompanist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
for violin and singing.
He is a regular guest of the Brahms Festival at Mürzzuschlag
, Austria.
Jozef De Beenhouwer’s recordings include works by Johannes Brahms
, Hans Pfitzner
, Franz Schubert
, and by the German romantic composer Ludwig Schuncke
, whose G minor sonata he was the first to perform. But his international reputation rests mainly on his Schumann expertise. Basing himself on Robert Schumann’s autograph, whose pages, besides being hard to read, had also been wrongly bound, he managed to reconstruct and complete an unfinished Concertsatz in D minor, dated 1839 (world premiere in Vienna
, 1986, with the Vienna Symphony conducted by Peter Gülke). He completed and orchestrated a Konzertsatz in F minor by Clara Schumann
(world premiere Zwickau
, 1986, with the orchestra of the Theater of Zwickau conducted by Albrecht Hofmann). He was the first to record all of Clara Schumann’s works for piano solo (three CDs). He is now regularly invited to be a member of the jury of the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano, and occasionally of other international piano competitions as well.
Jozef De Beenhouwer is also an ardent champion of music by Belgian, especially Flemish, composers, whose works he plays and records regularly. When these have remained unpublished he deciphers them from the manuscript and sometimes ends up publishing them himself. (See the bibliography and discography, below.)
On tour in the USA, Jozef De Beenhouwer has played a number of concerts as a soloist and with the violinist Janet Packer, and their programs have all featured American composers, such as Irving Fine
, Amy Beach
, Gardner Read
, Andrew Imbrie
and Vittorio Rieti
.
Jozef De Beenhouwer succeeded his teacher Lode Backx as a professor of piano at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp in 1983. At present he is also in charge of a chamber music course at the conservatory, and of the course of Art Songs (a term of which is devoted to German Lieder), the latter together with the mezzo soprano Lucienne Van Deyck.
Since 1990 he has been the artistic director of the Brussels Lunchtime Concerts.
Besides in music, Jozef De Beenhouwer is also interested in literature and in painting. His knowledge of literature, particularly of German Romanticism, stands him in good stead in his Schumann studies and in his Art Song class. And he has published the standard monograph on the Belgian-Dutch painter Henry Luyten
as well as a book on that painter’s school.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
(Flemish
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
) pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
, music teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
and musicologist.
Biography
His first teacher, with whom he started at the age of five, was his paternal grandfather. Even as a child and adolescent, he became acquainted with a vast repertoire, and developed a special preference for music by Robert SchumannRobert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
. In 1964 he began studying with Lode Backx, at first privately; later, after graduating from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is a Dutch-speaking university in Flanders, Belgium.It is located at the centre of the historic town of Leuven, and is a prominent part of the city, home to the university since 1425...
as a pharmacist
Pharmacist
Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...
(1970), at the Queen Elisabeth College of Music at Waterloo
Waterloo, Belgium
Waterloo is a Walloon municipality located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium. On December 31, 2009, Waterloo had a total population of 29,573. The total area is 21.03 km² which gives a population density of 1,407 inhabitants per km²...
, from which he graduated in 1974, and at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp, which granted him the “Hoger Diploma”, its highest degree, summa cum laude
Latin honors
Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. This system is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and in many countries of continental Europe, though some institutions also use the English translation of these...
in 1975. Another major influence on Jozef De Beenhouwer was David Kimball, with whom he took private lessons in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
between 1991 and 1998.
As a soloist, both in works for piano solo and in works with orchestra, he has played concerts and made radio and television recordings in many European countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, in South-Korea and in the United States. He has accompanied singers like Ria Bollen, Nina Stemme
Nina Stemme
Nina Stemme is an opera singer known for her warm, solid spinto soprano voice, with some qualities of a dramatic soprano....
, Robert Holl and Werner Van Mechelen. As a chamber musician he has played with Belgian musicians like the clarinetist Walter Boeykens
Walter Boeykens
Knight Walter Boeykens January 6, 1938 Bornem, Belgium is a Belgian conductor and a world renowned clarinetist. Boeykens has an impressive discography including several critically acclaimed performances that are testimony to his status as one of the most notable clarinetists of the 20th century...
, the pianist Daniel Blumenthal
Daniel Blumenthal (pianist)
Daniel Blumenthal is a German-born American pianist.Daniel Blumenthal was born in Landstuhl, Germany in September, 1952. His first music studies at age 5 in Paris. Later on he enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C., then continued studies at the University of Michigan, where he...
, the violinist Guido Deneve, the violist Leo Deneve, the cellist Edmond Baeyens, the Spiegel Quartet, as well as international partners like the violinists Ning Kam
Kam Ning
Kam Ning is a renowned violinist and daughter of violinist-composer Kam Kee Yong. Born in Singaporer in 1975, She was given violin lessons at the age of six by the elder Kam, and had her early education at the Methodist Girls' School....
and Alexander Kramarov, the violist Hartmut Lindemann, the cellist Marien van Staalen and the Panocha Quartet
Panocha Quartet
The Panocha Quartet in a Czech string quartet whose playing is admired for its fine tone, stylistic sensitivity, technical address and polish. It was formed at the Prague Conservatory in 1968 from a trio consisting of Jiří Panocha , Jaroslav Hlůzě , and Jaroslav Kulhan...
. With Kees Hülsmann and Marien van Staalen he forms the Robert Schumann Trio.
For ten years (1986–1996) Jozef De Beenhouwer was an official accompanist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
The Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, a founding member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions has been, since its foundation, considered the world over to be one of the most prestigious and most difficult. It is devoted to violin , piano , to composition and to singing...
for violin and singing.
He is a regular guest of the Brahms Festival at Mürzzuschlag
Mürzzuschlag
Mürzzuschlag is a town in northeastern Styria, Austria, the capital of the Mürzzuschlag District. It is located on the Mürz river near the Semmering Pass, the border with the state of Lower Austria, about southwest of Vienna. The population is 8,745...
, Austria.
Jozef De Beenhouwer’s recordings include works by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
, Hans Pfitzner
Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...
, Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
, and by the German romantic composer Ludwig Schuncke
Ludwig Schuncke
Ludwig Schuncke was a German pianist and composer, and close friend of Robert Schumann. His early promise was eclipsed by his death from tuberculosis at the age of 23....
, whose G minor sonata he was the first to perform. But his international reputation rests mainly on his Schumann expertise. Basing himself on Robert Schumann’s autograph, whose pages, besides being hard to read, had also been wrongly bound, he managed to reconstruct and complete an unfinished Concertsatz in D minor, dated 1839 (world premiere in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, 1986, with the Vienna Symphony conducted by Peter Gülke). He completed and orchestrated a Konzertsatz in F minor by Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
(world premiere Zwickau
Zwickau
Zwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...
, 1986, with the orchestra of the Theater of Zwickau conducted by Albrecht Hofmann). He was the first to record all of Clara Schumann’s works for piano solo (three CDs). He is now regularly invited to be a member of the jury of the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano, and occasionally of other international piano competitions as well.
Jozef De Beenhouwer is also an ardent champion of music by Belgian, especially Flemish, composers, whose works he plays and records regularly. When these have remained unpublished he deciphers them from the manuscript and sometimes ends up publishing them himself. (See the bibliography and discography, below.)
On tour in the USA, Jozef De Beenhouwer has played a number of concerts as a soloist and with the violinist Janet Packer, and their programs have all featured American composers, such as Irving Fine
Irving Fine
Irving Gifford Fine was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neo-classical, romantic and, later, serial elements...
, Amy Beach
Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...
, Gardner Read
Gardner Read
Gardner Read was an American composer and musical scholar....
, Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...
and Vittorio Rieti
Vittorio Rieti
Vittorio Rieti was an Jewish-Italian composer. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Rieti moved to Milan to study economics. He subsequently studied in Rome under Respighi and Casella, and lived there until 1940....
.
Jozef De Beenhouwer succeeded his teacher Lode Backx as a professor of piano at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp in 1983. At present he is also in charge of a chamber music course at the conservatory, and of the course of Art Songs (a term of which is devoted to German Lieder), the latter together with the mezzo soprano Lucienne Van Deyck.
Since 1990 he has been the artistic director of the Brussels Lunchtime Concerts.
Besides in music, Jozef De Beenhouwer is also interested in literature and in painting. His knowledge of literature, particularly of German Romanticism, stands him in good stead in his Schumann studies and in his Art Song class. And he has published the standard monograph on the Belgian-Dutch painter Henry Luyten
Henry Luyten
Henry Luyten was a Dutch-born Belgian painter.-Biography:Hendrik Luyten was born in Roermond, the Netherlands as the son of Francis Hubert Luyten and Johanna Hendrica de Bee . He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium from 1878...
as well as a book on that painter’s school.
Prizes
- Jozef De Beenhouwer has twice been rewarded with a Caecilia Prize (an award bestowed by the Belgian Association of Music Critics), in 1984 for a recording of works by Peter Benoit and in 1986 for a recording of works by Joseph RyelandtJoseph RyelandtJoseph Ryelandt was a Belgian classical composer.-Life:Joseph Victor Marie Ryelandt was born in Bruges, into a wealthy bourgeois family, for whom culture, tradition, and the Roman Catholic religion mattered. So did music, which the family practiced a lot...
. - For his endeavors on behalf of the works of Robert and Clara Schumann, the city of Zwickau awarded him its 1993 Robert-Schumann-Prize.
- On November 29, 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Klara, the classical-music channel of the Vlaamse Radio- en TelevisieomroepVlaamse Radio- en TelevisieomroepThe Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie , or VRT, is a publicly-funded broadcaster of radio and television in Flanders ....
. From the citation (translated from the Dutch): "An excellent pianist and an internationally recognized Schumann specialist … [who] has always championed Flemish composers with pleasure and with conviction."
Musicology
- Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
Konzertsatz für Klavier und Orchester d-moll. Rekonstruiert und ergänzt von Jozef De Beenhouwer. (PB 5181.) Wiesbaden: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1988. - Clara SchumannClara SchumannClara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
Konzertsatz für Klavier und Orchester f-Moll. Ergänzt und instrumentiert von Jozef De Beenhouwer. (PB 5280.) Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, c1994. - Editions of works by Victor Legley, Joseph RyelandtJoseph RyelandtJoseph Ryelandt was a Belgian classical composer.-Life:Joseph Victor Marie Ryelandt was born in Bruges, into a wealthy bourgeois family, for whom culture, tradition, and the Roman Catholic religion mattered. So did music, which the family practiced a lot...
, Marinus de Jong, August de BoeckAugust de BoeckJulianus Marie August de Boeck was a Flemish composer, organist and music pedagogue....
(all published by CeBeDeM); by Peter Benoit (Peter Benoit Fonds, Antwerp) and by Ernst KrenekErnst KrenekErnst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...
(in the journal Gezelliana). - Jozef De Beenhouwer & Frank Teirlinck, eds. August De Boeck (1865–1937), Componist (Merchtem: Gemeente Merchtem, 2011; ISBN 9789081778107. In Dutch. De Beenhouwer is also the author of over well over one-third of the second part of the book, devoted to the discussion of De Boeck's oeuvre.
Other
- Henry Luyten (1859–1945) (Antwerpen: MIM, 1995; ISBN 90 341 0857 0) (in Dutch)
- ‘Institut des Beaux Arts Henry Luyten’ at Brasschaat: One Hundred Years On (Brasschaat: Pandora, 2008; ISBN 97890-5325-293-2)
Discography (selection)
- Clara SchumannClara SchumannClara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
Complete works for piano solo (CPO 99 758-2) - Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
KreislerianaKreislerianaKreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled , written in April 1838. Dedicated to Frédéric Chopin, it is a very dramatic work and is considered to be one of Schumann's finest compositions....
– Chopin-Variationen – Fantasiestücke, op. 111 – Gesänge der Frühe (Phaedra CD 292 007) - Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
CarnavalCarnaval (Schumann)Carnaval, Op. 9, is a work by Robert Schumann for piano solo, written in 1834-1835, and subtitled Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes . It consists of a collection of short pieces representing masked revelers at Carnival, a festival before Lent...
– KinderszenenKinderszenenKinderszenen , Opus 15, by Robert Schumann, is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. In this work, Schumann provides us with his adult reminiscences of childhood. Schumann had originally written 30 movements for this work, but chose 13 for the final version...
– Waldszenen (Phaedra CD 292 018) - Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
DichterliebeDichterliebeDichterliebe, 'The Poet's Love' , is the best-known song cycle of Robert Schumann . The texts for the 16 songs come from the Lyrisches Intermezzo of Heinrich Heine, composed 1822–1823, published as part of the poet's Das Buch der Lieder. Following the song-cycles of Franz Schubert , those of...
– Various Lieder (with Robert Holl) (Preiser 93403) - Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
Piano Quintet, op. 44Piano Quintet (Schumann)The Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, by Robert Schumann was written in 1842. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet .- Background :...
& Piano Quartet, op. 47 (with the Panocha QuartetPanocha QuartetThe Panocha Quartet in a Czech string quartet whose playing is admired for its fine tone, stylistic sensitivity, technical address and polish. It was formed at the Prague Conservatory in 1968 from a trio consisting of Jiří Panocha , Jaroslav Hlůzě , and Jaroslav Kulhan...
) (Phaedra CD 292020) - Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
Klavierstücke, op. 76, 118 & 119 (Phaedra CD 292012) - Hans PfitznerHans PfitznerHans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...
Piano trios (with the Robert Schumann Trio) (CPO 999 735-2) - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
Arpeggione SonataArpeggione SonataThe Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione which remains extant today...
(with Alfred Lessing, arpeggione) (FCD 368 392) - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
WinterreiseWinterreiseWinterreise is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert , a setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two great song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier being Die schöne Müllerin...
(with Werner Van Mechelen) (DRK 237139) - Ludwig SchunckeLudwig SchunckeLudwig Schuncke was a German pianist and composer, and close friend of Robert Schumann. His early promise was eclipsed by his death from tuberculosis at the age of 23....
Works for piano (Schuncke-Archiv 001) - Jean Louis NicodéJean Louis NicodeJean Louis Nicodé was a Prussian pianist, composer and conductor.He was born in Jersitz . He was initially taught by his father, an amateur violinist, pianist, conductor and composer...
Cello sonata no. 2 (with Marien van Staalen) (Phaedra CD 92017) - Gösta NystroemGösta NystroemGösta Nystroem was a Swedish composer.Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge near Stockholm, at the time a small village but nowadays a suburban district. His father was a headmaster and an...
Sånger vid havet (Songs by the Sea) (with Nina StemmeNina StemmeNina Stemme is an opera singer known for her warm, solid spinto soprano voice, with some qualities of a dramatic soprano....
(Phaedra CD 92040) - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
Wesendonck LiederWesendonck LiederThe Wesendonck Lieder is a song cycle composed by Richard Wagner while he was working on Die Walküre. This, and the Siegfried Idyll, are his only two non-operatic works that are still regularly performed....
(with Nina StemmeNina StemmeNina Stemme is an opera singer known for her warm, solid spinto soprano voice, with some qualities of a dramatic soprano....
) (Phaedra CD 92040) - Peter Benoit two song cycles, De Liefde in het Leven (Love in Life) and Liefdedrama (Tragedy of Love) (with Werner Van Mechelen) and the piano cycle Uit Henriëtte's Album (Phaedra CD 92026/2)
- Peter Benoit Vertelsels en Balladen (Tales and Ballads), op. 34 (Poketino 926682-2)
- Jan BlockxJan BlockxJan Blockx was a Belgian composer, pianist and teacher. He was a leader of the Flemish nationalist school in music.-Biography:...
Piano quintet (with the Ensor quartet) (Phaedra CD 92016) - August De BoeckAugust de BoeckJulianus Marie August de Boeck was a Flemish composer, organist and music pedagogue....
Cello sonata & Cantalena for cello and piano (with Marien van Staalen) (Phaedra CD 92017) - August De BoeckAugust de BoeckJulianus Marie August de Boeck was a Flemish composer, organist and music pedagogue....
Sept Mélodies (set to poems by Jeanne Cuisinier) (with Nina StemmeNina StemmeNina Stemme is an opera singer known for her warm, solid spinto soprano voice, with some qualities of a dramatic soprano....
) (Phaedra CD 92040) - August De BoeckAugust de BoeckJulianus Marie August de Boeck was a Flemish composer, organist and music pedagogue....
Piano music (Phaedra CD 92064) - August De BoeckAugust de BoeckJulianus Marie August de Boeck was a Flemish composer, organist and music pedagogue....
Concerto for piano and orchestra in C major (with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, OstravaOstravaOstrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...
, conducted by Ivo Venkov) (Phaedra CD 92071) - Jef Van HoofJef van HoofJef van Hoof was a Belgian composer and conductor.Born in Antwerp, Van Hoof was a pupil of Paul Gilson and was highly influenced by the works of Peter Benoit. He composed chamber music, symphonic works, art songs, works for solo piano and organ and sacred music...
Songs (with Ria Bollen) (Gailly 87 006) - Marinus de Jong Piano concerto no. 1 (with the Radio Orchestra of the BRT conducted by Silveer van den Broeck) – Indian Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha for two pianos (with Daniel BlumenthalDaniel Blumenthal (pianist)Daniel Blumenthal is a German-born American pianist.Daniel Blumenthal was born in Landstuhl, Germany in September, 1952. His first music studies at age 5 in Paris. Later on he enrolled at American University in Washington, D.C., then continued studies at the University of Michigan, where he...
) – Six preludes – Ballad Ex Vita Mea (Phaedra CD 92034) - Marinus de Jong Scherzo-Idyll from Hiawatha’s Song – Nocturne Schemeravond op Esschenhof – Three paintings from an exhibition by V. Van Gogh (Phaedra CD 92015)
- Marinus de Jong Sonata Pacis, Doloris et Amoris – Gaudeamus & Meditatio, (both with Ning KamKam NingKam Ning is a renowned violinist and daughter of violinist-composer Kam Kee Yong. Born in Singaporer in 1975, She was given violin lessons at the age of six by the elder Kam, and had her early education at the Methodist Girls' School....
) – Sonate no. 3 – Nocturne De vertorte Blomme – 2 waltzes and 2 etudes (Phaedra CD 92061) - Lodewijk MortelmansLodewijk MortelmansLodewijk Mortelmans was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. He was from a family of five children born to Isabella and Charles Mortelmans...
Songs (with Werner Van Mechelen) and music for piano (Phaedra CD 92019) - Joseph RyelandtJoseph RyelandtJoseph Ryelandt was a Belgian classical composer.-Life:Joseph Victor Marie Ryelandt was born in Bruges, into a wealthy bourgeois family, for whom culture, tradition, and the Roman Catholic religion mattered. So did music, which the family practiced a lot...
Sonatas no. 2, 4 & 7 – Phantasiestücke, op. 9 – Suite En Ardenne – Six Nocturnes – Prélude et Fugue, op. 49 – Préludes op. 62 & op. 96 (Gailly 87 001-2) - Joseph RyelandtJoseph RyelandtJoseph Ryelandt was a Belgian classical composer.-Life:Joseph Victor Marie Ryelandt was born in Bruges, into a wealthy bourgeois family, for whom culture, tradition, and the Roman Catholic religion mattered. So did music, which the family practiced a lot...
Piano quintet and Piano sextet Ach Tjanne (with the Spiegel quartet) (Phaedra CD 92055) - Music for piano by Paul GilsonPaul GilsonPaul Gilson was a Belgian musician and composer.-Biography:Gilson was born in Brussels. In 1866, his family moved to Ruisbroek in the Belgian province of Brabant. There he studied theory with the organist and choir director Auguste Cantillon, and began writing works for orchestra and choir...
, Joseph JongenJoseph JongenMarie-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...
, Victor Legley and Ernest van der EykenErnest van der EykenErnest Jozef Leo van der Eyken was a Belgian composer, conductor and violist.Van der Eyken received his first musical training at the age of five at the Music Academy in Sint-Truiden. At the age of seven he joined the music theory class of Karel Candael at the Royal Music Conservatory in Antwerp...