Étienne Soubre
Étienne-Joseph Soubre (born December 30, 1813 in Liège ; † September 8, 1871 there ) was a Belgian composer .
Life
Étienne Soubre was the brother of the painter Charles Soubre (1821–1895). He attended the Liège Music School (later the Royal Conservatory) in the founding year 1827, where he received piano and bassoon lessons, he studied harmony, counterpoint and fugue theory with Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul . At the age of 18 he became an assistant (professeur-adjoint) for music teaching, later he became a piano teacher.
In 1841 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome with his cantata "Sardanapale" . After a four-year study tour through Germany, Italy and France, which was compulsory with prize money of 2500 francs, he returned to Belgium in 1844. He settled in Brussels and devoted himself to teaching and conducting. During this time he performed his “ Hymne à Godefroid de Bouillon ”, which was performed with great success in Antwerp with 1,500 singers from 46 Belgian, Dutch and German choirs. In 1855 his first opera Isoline ou les Chaperons blancs was premiered at the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie .
Soubre directed the Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles for several years . In 1861 he was appointed inspector of music lessons in secondary schools by the Belgian government. One year later he took over the management of the Liège Conservatory, succeeding Joseph Dassoigne-Méhul. In this role, he introduced new subjects such as organ classes, chamber music, vocal ensembles, and modern teaching methods that were geared towards a broader education of the students rather than virtuosity. The foundation of the concert series Les Concerts du Conservatoire was a particular achievement . The planning of a representative new building for the conservatory began under Soubre. In the year of his death in 1871, Étienne Soubre was honored by membership in the Académie Royale . The city of Liege commemorated him with the street «Rue Étienne Soubre».
One son was the architect Charles Étienne Soubre (1846–1915).
Works (selection)
- Symphony triomphale (1853)
- Isoline ou les Chaperons blancs , Opera (1855)
- Requiem for male voices (double choir, solos) and orchestra (1859). Commissioned by the Belgian government to celebrate the September festivities in Brussels in memory of the defenders of the fatherland who fell for Belgium's freedom in 1830.
- Hymn to Godefroid de Bouillon
- Stabat
- Ave Verum
- Chants ossianiques
- Prière avant le combat
- La branche d'Amandier
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Lade, Philippe Vendrix: Soubre, Etienne-Joseph. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ Le Conservatoire de Liège et sa bibliothèque: histoire et architecture ( Memento of October 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours , p 579-580, Editions: "Art in Belgium" in 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7
- ↑ From Aachen . In: Niederrheinische Musikzeitung . Cologne April 27, 1861, p. 134 ( princeton.edu ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soubre, Etienne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soubre, Étienne-Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1871 |
| Place of death | Liege |