100 Notable alumni of
Royal Conservatory of Brussels
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Royal Conservatory of Brussels is 677th in the world, 244th in Europe, and 6th in Belgium by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Royal Conservatory of Brussels sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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André Rieu
- Occupations
- record producermusic arrangerconductorviolinist
- Biography
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André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu is a Dutch violinist and conductor best known for creating the waltz-playing Johann Strauss Orchestra.
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Lara Fabian
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- recording artistfilm actormusiciansingersinger-songwriter
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Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert, known professionally as Lara Fabian ( Flemish: [ˈlaːraː ˈfaːbijɑn], French: [laʁa fabjɑ̃], Italian: [ˈlaːra ˈfaːbjan]), is a Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling Belgian artists of all time.
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Adolphe Sax
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- inventormusic educatormusicianuniversity teachermusical instrument maker
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Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba, and redesigned the bass clarinet in a fashion still used to the present day. He played the flute and clarinet.
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Isaac Albéniz
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- composerclassical pianistconductorpianistvirtuoso
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Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98.
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Mehdi Dehbi
- Occupations
- film actortheatrical directortelevision actor
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Mehdi Dehbi is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in La Folle Histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (2009, English title: He is My Girl), L'Infiltré (2011), Le Fils de l'Autre (2012, English title: The Other Son), Mary Queen of Scots (2013), and A Most Wanted Man (2014). In 2020, he played the title role in the Netflix series Messiah.
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Alexandra David-Néel
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- singerexploreranarchistopera singerwomen's rights activist
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Alexandra David-Néel was a Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929. Her teachings influenced the beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the popularisers of Eastern philosophy Alan Watts and Ram Dass, and the esotericist Benjamin Creme.
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Marius Petipa
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- librettistchoreographerdancerteacherballet dancer
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Marius Ivanovich Petipa, born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818 – 14 July [O.S. 1 July] 1910), was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history.
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Lubna Azabal
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- screenwriterfilm actoractor
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Lubna Azabal is a Belgian actress.
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Eugène Ysaÿe
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- concertmasterviolinistmusic educatorconductorcomposer
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Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".
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Virginie Hocq
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Virginie Hocq is a Belgian actress and comedian.
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Charles-Marie Widor
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- music criticuniversity teachercomposerclassical composermusic arranger
- Biography
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Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic era. As a composer he is known for his ten organ symphonies, especially the toccata of his fifth organ symphony, which is frequently played as recessional music at weddings and other celebrations.
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Wim Mertens
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- composersingerpianistfilm score composermusicologist
- Biography
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Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.
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Dimitri Mitropoulos
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- composerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Dimitri Mitropoulos was a Greek and American conductor, pianist, and composer.
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Marianne Basler
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- film directorfilm actoractor
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Marianne Basler is a French actress. She has appeared in more than eighty films since 1980.
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Arthur Grumiaux
- Occupations
- university teacherpianistmusic educator
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Baron Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist, considered by some to have been "one of the few truly great violin virtuosi of the twentieth century". He has been noted for having a "consistently beautiful tone and flawless intonation". English music critic and broadcaster, Edward Greenfield wrote of him that he was "a master virtuoso who consistently refused to make a show of his technical prowess".
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José van Dam
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- musicianopera singeractor
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Joseph, Baron Van Damme, known as José van Dam, is a Belgian bass-baritone, described as having "a magnificent resonant and expressive voice" and being "an excellent actor".
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Tania Balachova
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- screenwriterfilm actoractor
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Tania Balachova was a French actress and director of Russian origin. After World War II, she became one of the most influential actor training teachers in France.
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Louis Soutter
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- violinistpainterdraftsperson
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Louis Adolphe Soutter was a Swiss painter and graphic artist in the Art Brut style, who produced most of his work while under care in a hospice. He also worked as a musician, playing the violin.
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Raymond Rouleau
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- directorscreenwritertheatrical directorfilm actorfilm director
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Raymond Rouleau was a Belgian actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1928 and 1979. He also directed 22 films between 1932 and 1981. Rouleau studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he met Tania Balachova. They emigrated to Paris together and collaborated with a variety of directors at the cutting edge of French theatre, including Charles Dullin and Gaston Baty. They married in France and separated in 1940. He subsequently married the actress Françoise Lugagne.
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Sigiswald Kuijken
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- violistviolinistmusic educatorconductorcomposer
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Sigiswald Kuijken is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on period and original instruments.
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Viviane De Muynck
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- actorauthordramaturgetheatrical directorperforming artist
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Viviane de Muynck is a Belgian actress. She appeared in more than sixty films since 1982.
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Saule
- Enrolled in Royal Conservatory of Brussels
- Studied theatre
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersinger
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Baptiste Lalieu better known as Saule sometimes stylized SAULE in all capital letters, is a Belgian singer-songwriter who has found recognition and chart success with his single "Dusty Men" (featuring Charlie Winston) followed by his album Géant, that includes French music with Anglo-Saxon rock sound and country music influences. He is signed to the "30 février" record label.
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Peter Benoit
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- politiciancomposerconductormusicologist
- Biography
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Peter Benoit was a Flemish composer of Belgian nationality.
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Dirk Brossé
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- trumpeterfilm score composerconductorcomposeruniversity teacher
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Dirk, Knight Brossé is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works. Brossé has also composed extensively for stage, cinema, television. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award. Dirk Brossé is currently music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and of the Ghent Film Festival. John Williams chose him as Principal Conductor of the Star Wars in Concert World Tour. Brossé is also professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Dirk Brossé has conducted international orchestras, both at home and abroad. Amongst them, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Basel, Madrid, Porto, Birmingham, Ulster, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Queensland, St Petersburg, Los Angeles and Boston. In 2008, he made his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, at the request of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, he wrote The Hallow-e'en Dances. This Halloween-inspired work is especially written for age-old, traditional Chinese instruments. Brossé recently composed Haiku Cycle 1, written for Jessye Norman and based on Haiku by Herman Van Rompuy.
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Jean-Paul Comart
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- actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jean-Paul Comart is a Belgian actor best known for his appearances in French film in the 1980s. He has appeared in films, TV and in the theatre.
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Madeleine Ozeray
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- actor
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Madeleine Ozeray, was a Belgian stage and film actress. She appeared in many films between 1932 and 1980. She is the godmother of theater actor, dancer and singer Frédéric Norbert.
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Eduardo Fabini
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- composerviolinistteacher
- Biography
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Eduardo Fabini was a Uruguayan composer and musician.
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Arnold Dolmetsch
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- musicianharpsichordistmusical instrument makerviolinistmusicologist
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Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch, was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.
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Richard Hageman
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- film score composerpianistconductorfilm actor
- Biography
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Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer.
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Jean Absil
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- composermusicologistmusic educator
- Biography
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Jean Absil was a Belgian composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatoire.
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Paul Viardot
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- composerconductormusicologistviolinist
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Paul Viardot was a French violinist and composer who appeared with great success in Paris and London.
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Bruno Studer
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- politicianprofessors, scientific professionsteacher
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Bruno Studer is a French teacher and politician who represented the 3rd constituency of Bas-Rhin in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2024. He is a member of Renaissance (RE, formerly La République En Marche!) which he joined in 2016.
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Lucien Petipa
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- ballet masterballet dancerchoreographerdancer
- Biography
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Lucien Petipa was a French ballet dancer in the early 19th century (Romantic period), who was the brother of Marius Petipa, the famous ballet master of the Russian Imperial Ballet. He was born in Marseilles and died in Versailles.
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Berthe Bovy
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- stage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Berthe Bovy, sometimes known as Betty Bovy, was a Belgian actress who appeared in theatre, films and television programmes for over 60 years.
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Enrique Fernández Arbós
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- concertmasterviolinistmusic educatorconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Enrique Fernández Arbós was a Spanish violinist, composer and conductor who divided much of his career between Madrid and London. He originally made his name as a virtuoso violinist and later as one of Spain's greatest conductors.
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Paul Kochanski
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- composermusic educatorviolinistmusicianconcertmaster
- Biography
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Paul Kochanski was a Polish violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States.
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Pierre Jansen
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- composerfilm score composerteacher
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Pierre Georges Cornil Jansen was a French film scores composer. He was in particular the permanent collaborator of Claude Chabrol for whom he composed the music for many films.
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Irina Lankova
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- pianist
- Biography
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Irina Alexandrovna Lankova is a Russian-born Belgian concert pianist.
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Jesús de Monasterio
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- composerconductorviolinistmusic educator
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Jesús de Monasterio y Agüeros was a Spanish violinist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the main promoters of instrumental music in Madrid during the nineteenth century.
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Charles-Marie Courboin
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- organistvirtuoso
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Charles Marie Courboin was a Belgian–American organ virtuoso who enjoyed popularity during the 1920s. During this time he was engaged by department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker to oversee the second enlargement of the Wanamaker Organ. He added the huge string and orchestral sections bringing it to 461 ranks and 28,482 pipes. He also served as Director of Music for St. Patrick Cathedral, New York City from 1943 until his retirement in 1968.
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Paul Gilson
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- musicianmusic educatorcomposerpianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Paul Gilson was a Belgian musician and composer.
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Alma Moodie
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- violinist
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Alma Mary Templeton Moodie was an Australian violinist who established an excellent reputation in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. She was regarded as being among the foremost female violinists during the inter-war years, along with such players as Erica Morini, Jelly d'Arányi and Kathleen Parlow; and she premiered violin concertos by Kurt Atterberg, Hans Pfitzner and Ernst Krenek. She and Max Rostal were considered the best pre-war proponents of the Carl Flesch tradition. She became a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. However, Alma Moodie made no recordings, and she appears in very few reference sources. Despite her former renown, her name became virtually unknown for many years. She appeared in earlier editions of Grove's and Baker's Dictionaries, but does not appear in the more recent editions.
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André Vandernoot
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- conductor
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André Vandernoot was a Belgian conductor. He studied at the Royal Music Conservatory in Brussels, and later flute and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik, Vienna. In 1951, he was a prize-winner in a conducting competition in Besançon, France.
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Antal Zalai
- Enrolled in Royal Conservatory of Brussels
- Studied in 2009
- Occupations
- violinist
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Antal Zalai is a Hungarian concert violinist.
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Arthur De Greef
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- composerpianistmusicologistmusic educator
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Arthur De Greef was a Belgian classical pianist and composer of the romantic era.
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August De Boeck
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- organistmusicianmusic educatorcomposeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Julianus Marie August De Boeck was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. He was the son of organist and director Florentinus (Flor) De Boeck (1826-1892)
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Edgar Tinel
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- university teacherschool directorcomposerpianist
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Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel was a Belgian composer and pianist.
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Carole Karemera
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- performing artistactordancer
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Carole Umulinga Karemera is a Belgian-born Rwandan actress, saxophone player, theater director, festivals producer and culture policy expert.
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Henry Schradieck
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- composerconcertmastermusic educator
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Henry Schradieck was a German violinist, music pedagogue and composer. He was one of the foremost violin teachers of his day. He wrote a series of etude books for the violin which are still in common use today.
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Alain Crépin
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- music educatorconductorsaxophonistcomposeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alain Crepin is a Belgian saxophonist, composer, music educator and conductor.
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Marcel Ponseele
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- musicianoboist
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Marcel Ponseele is a Belgian oboist.
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Eduard Lassen
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- composermusic educatorconductor
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Eduard Lassen was a Belgian-Danish composer and conductor. Although of Danish birth, he spent most of his career working as the music director at the court in Weimar. A moderately prolific composer, Lassen produced music in a variety of genres including operas, symphonic works, piano works, lieder, and choral works among others. His most successful pieces were his fine vocal art songs for solo voice and piano which often used elements of German and Belgian folk music.
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Julien Libeer
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- pianist
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Julien Libeer is a Belgian classical pianist. Libeer has won several awards for his compositions, and regularly performs his works at a variety of international stadiums. He is the host of Belgian television show Studio Flagey Klassik, a television show about classical music.
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Alfred Eugene Megerlin
- Years
- 1880-1941 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- violinist
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Alfred Eugene Megerlin was a violinist. He was the concertmaster and first violinist of the New York Philharmonic.
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Philippe Pierlot
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- viol playeracademic musicianconductor
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Philippe Pierlot is a Belgian viola da gamba player and a conductor in historically informed performance. He is also an academic teacher at the royal conservatories of The Hague and Brussels.
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Oskar Back
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- violinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Oskar Back was a noted Austrian-born Dutch classical violinist and pedagogue. He taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory for 42 years, and also had a significant earlier teaching career in Belgium.
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Houshang Ostovar
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- composer
- Biography
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Amir Houshang Ostovar was a Persian symphonic music composer and Instructor.
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Carl Verbraeken
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- musicianmusic educatorcomposerpianistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Carl Gustav Verbraeken is a Belgian composer.
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Walter Hus
- Occupations
- composermusicianpianistcreatorperforming artist
- Biography
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Walter Hus is a Belgian composer and musician.
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Julius Eichberg
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- composerwriter
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Julius Eichberg was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Nathalie Loriers
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- pianistjazz musician
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Nathalie Loriers is a Belgian jazz pianist and composer.
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Pierre Kolp
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- composermusicologist
- Biography
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Pierre Kolp is a Belgian composer and music pedagogue born in Cologne, Germany, on 23 March 1969.
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Joan Massià
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- composerviolinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Joan Massià i Prats was a Catalan composer and violinist.
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Frantz Jehin-Prume
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- composerviolinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Frantz Jehin-Prume was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator of Belgian birth. He began his career as a highly successful concert violinist in Europe. From 1865 on he lived and worked mainly in Montreal, Canada; becoming one of the most important 19th century musical figures in Quebec. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1868.
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Annette Vande Gorne
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- composer
- Biography
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Annette Vande Gorne is a Belgian electroacoustic music composer currently living in Ohain, Belgium.
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Maurice Renaud
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- opera singer
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Maurice Arnold Renaud was a cultured French operatic baritone. He enjoyed an international reputation for the superlative quality of his singing and the brilliance of his acting.
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Berthe Bady
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- actor
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Berthe Bady was a French actress of Belgian origin. She was the companion of Lugné-Poe and Henry Bataille. The fortunes she had won as an actress were devoted to her household with Bataille. Berthe died in isolation at Jouy-sur-Eure.
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Isabelle Kabatu
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Isabelle Kabatu is a Belgian operatic soprano with a father from Belgian Congo and a Belgian mother. She has appeared internationally, with a focus on the Italian repertoire such as Verdi's La traviata and Aida, and Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Tosca. She appeared as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess beginning at the Houston Grand Opera and touring the world. In 2012, she appeared in the world premiere of Franck's early work Stradella.
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Joseph Dupont
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- university teachercomposerconductormusic educator
- Biography
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Henri-Joseph Dupont was a Belgian violinist, leader, theatre director (manager) and conductor. The pianist Auguste Dupont was his brother.
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Joseph Hollman
- Occupations
- composercellist
- Biography
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Joseph Hollman, was a Dutch cellist.
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Hippolyte Fierens Gevaert
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- philosopheropera singercuratorwriterart historian
- Biography
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Hippolyte Gevaert or Fierens-Gevaert was a Belgian art historian, philosopher, art critic, singer, and writer.
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Louis van Waefelghem
- Occupations
- composerviola d'amore player
- Biography
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Louis van Waefelghem was a Belgian violinist, violist and one of the greatest viola d'amore players of the 19th century. He also composed several works and made transcriptions for viola and viola d'amore.
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Valentin Tournet
- Occupations
- viol playerchoir directorconductor
- Biography
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Valentin Tournet is a French conductor, choral conductor and viola da gamba player.
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Hugo Heermann
- Occupations
- violinistmusic educator
- Biography
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Hugo Heermann was a German violinist. He studied the violin with Lambert Joseph Meerts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels, and later with Joseph Joachim. From 1864 he lived in Frankfurt am Main, where he taught violin from 1878 to 1904 at the Hoch Conservatory. He played 1st violin with Hugo Becker, Fritz Bassermann and Adolf Rebner in the "Museums-Quartett" (also called the "Heermann-Quartett" and "Frankfurter Quartett"). Between 1906 and 1909 he taught at the Chicago Musical College, in 1911 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and 1912 at the Conservatoire de musique in Geneva. In 1909 and 1910 he briefly was a member of The Dutch Trio, which transposed into the Heermann-van Lier String Quartet. He served as concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for a period beginning in 1909; he was succeeded in that post by his son Emil. He has the distinction of having been the first to have played Brahms' Violin Concerto in Paris, New York City and Australia. After his retirement in 1922 he lived mostly in Meran, Italy.
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Brian Priestman
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Brian Priestman was a British conductor and music educator.
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Juan Carlos Tolosa
- Occupations
- sound designercomposerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Tolosa is an Argentinian composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Auguste van Biene
- Occupations
- composeractorcellist
- Biography
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Auguste van Biene was a Dutch composer, cellist and actor. He became best known for his composition The Broken Melody, performed by the composer as part of a musical play of the same name.
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Anna Bochkoltz
- Occupations
- composeropera singervoice teacher
- Biography
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Anna Juliane Bochkoltz was a German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer. She performed her first concert in 1843, then studied in Brussels and Paris. After singing concerts in Paris, London and Berlin, she appeared in the 1850s on opera stages in Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Munich and Coburg. She was known for the range of her voice, and was regarded as one of the important dramatic coloratura sopranos of her era, appearing as Mozart's Donna Anna, Beethoven's Fidelio and Bellini's Norma. She later taught singing in Vienna, Strasbourg and Paris.
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Bram Eldering
- Occupations
- concertmastermusic educatorviolinistuniversity teachereditor
- Biography
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Abraham "Bram" Eldering was a Dutch violinist and music pedagogue.
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Marie Heilbron
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Marie Heilbron was a Belgian operatic coloratura soprano, particularly associated with the French repertory, creator of Jules Massenet's quintessential French heroine Manon.
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Armand Limnander
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Baron Armand-Marie Ghislain Limnander van Nieuwenhove was a Belgian composer of choral and orchestral works and church music. Knight of the Order of Leopold, he was the founder and conductor of the choral chamber ensembles Société Symphonique and Réunion Lyrique in Belgium.
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Alexi Tuomarila
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Alexi Tuomarila is a Finnish jazz pianist and composer.
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Manuel Posadas
- Occupations
- musicianprofessor
- Biography
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Manuel L. Posadas was a leading Afro-Argentine musician from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Luigi Agnesi
- Occupations
- composerconductoropera singersinger
- Biography
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Luigi Agnesi was a Belgian operatic bass-baritone, conductor and composer.
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Pierre Froidebise
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacherorganist
- Biography
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Pierre Froidebise was a Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist.
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Gustave Huberti
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Gustave Huberti was a Flemish composer. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he won prizes for piano, organ, harmony and chamber music in 1858. He won the prestigious Belgian Prix de Rome in 1865 with this cantata La fille de Jephté, which allowed him to travel through Italy and Germany for three years. During his career, he worked as a composer, a music critic, a teacher, an inspector of music education of the state schools of Antwerp, and as a director. He led the musical academies of Mons and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, and taught harmony at the Brussels Conservatory. He also directed the Grisar-choir and was part of the musical organisation of the World's Fair of 1885.
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Claude Coppens
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Claude Coppens is a Belgian pianist and composer.
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Édouard Jacobs
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Édouard Jacobs was a Belgian cellist. He was a pupil of Joseph Servais (a son of Adrien-François Servais), at the Brussels Conservatory. He played in the Weimar court orchestra for some years. In 1885 he succeeded his teacher as cello professor at the Brussels Conservatory. He also played viol da gamba in concerts of early music. Among his pupils was Fernand Quinet.
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Hector Dufranne
- Occupations
- opera singersinger
- Biography
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Hector Dufranne was a Belgian operatic bass-baritone who enjoyed a long career that took him to opera houses throughout Europe and the United States for more than four decades. Admired for both his singing and his acting, Dufranne appeared in a large number of world premieres, most notably the role Golaud in the original Opéra-Comique production of Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Salle Favart in Paris in 1902, which he went on to sing 120 times at that house. He had an excellent singing technique which maintained the quality of his voice even into the latter part of his career. His wide vocal range and rich resonant voice enabled him to sing a variety of roles which encompassed French, German, and Italian opera.
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Helen Lemmens-Sherrington
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Helen Lemmens-Sherrington was an English concert and operatic soprano prominent from the 1850s to the 1880s. Born in northern England, she spent much of her childhood and later life in Belgium, where she studied at the Brussels Conservatory. After engagements in mainland Europe she made her London debut in 1856. Her singing career was mostly in concert, but in the first half of the 1860s she appeared in opera at Covent Garden and other leading London theatres.
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Georges Cloetens
- Occupations
- inventororgan builder
- Biography
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Georges Cloetens was a Belgian organ builder and inventor, mainly known for the invention of the orphéal (1908) and the luthéal (1919).
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Diane Andersen
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Diane Andersen is a Danish born, Belgian classical concert pianist born in Copenhagen to a French mother and a Danish father.
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Berthold Tours
- Occupations
- composerorganistviolinistconductormusic arranger
- Biography
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Berthold Tours was a Dutch-born English violinist, composer and music editor. His first music teacher was his father, Barthelemy Tours (1797-1864), who was organist of the Groote or St Laurens Kerk in Rotterdam for thirty years, a conductor, and a violinist of European wide reputation, while he studied composition with Johannes Verhulst. Later, he studied composition with François-Joseph Fétis at the conservatory in Brussels and then continued his studies in Leipzig.
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Elsa Ruegger
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- musician
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Elsa Ruegger, later Elsa Ruegger-Lichtenstein, was a Swiss cellist, billed as "the greatest woman cellist in the world."
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Désiré Magnus
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- composerpianist
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Désiré Magnus was a Belgian concert pianist, teacher and composer of salon music who published under the pseudonym D. Magnus.
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Gustave Langenus
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- clarinetist
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Gustave Langenus was a Belgian clarinetist. He is known for his mouthpiece design and 1913 method book, an important early pedagogical device for the Boehm system clarinet. He was principal clarinetist with the New York Symphony.
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Sylvie Mamy
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- musicologist
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Sylvie Mamy, born in Besançon, is a French writer and musicologist, Docteur d'État ès lettres, and research director at the CNRS.
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Raymonde Delaunois
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- opera singer
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Raymonde Delaunois was a Belgian mezzo-soprano opera singer.
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Camille Babut du Marès
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- musician
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Camille Babut du Marès is a Belgian violinist.
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Édouard Devernay
- Occupations
- composerorganist
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Édouard Henri Devernay Jnr. was a French musician, composer and organist who held the position of organiste titulaire of the great organ of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Trouville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy.
