Adolphe Biarent

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Adolphe Biarent (born October 16, 1871 in Frasnes-lez-Gosselies ( Les Bons Villers ), † February 4, 1916 in Mont-sur-Marchienne ) was a Belgian composer and conductor.

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Adolphe Biarent first studied at the Brussels Conservatory . His teachers there included Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath (counterpoint), Joseph Dupont (harmony), Gustave Huberti (practical harmony) and Alphonse Mailly (organ). He later continued his studies in Ghent (among others with Émile Mathieu and Adolphe Samuel ). After completing his studies at the conservatory, he took additional private lessons with Martin Lussens .

In 1901 he was awarded a Belgian First Rome Prize for the cantata “ Œdipe à Colone ” . After returning from the associated trips through Italy, Austria and Germany, he settled in Charleroi , where he worked as a music teacher, conductor and composer. His students included the cellist, conductor and composer Fernand Quinet , with whom he also corresponded later.

Biarent's comparatively narrow catalog of works includes barely more than 20 compositions: orchestral works (for which the conductor Pierre Bartholomée , in particular, has advocated in recent times , thanks to an initiative of the society "Les Amis d'Adolphe Biarent") and chamber music. His music is in the late romantic tradition of César Franck or Vincent d'Indy , but also shows German influences ( Ludwig van Beethoven , Richard Wagner , Richard Strauss ). Together with Gustave Roullier , he published a collection of popular Belgian songs, "Mélodies populaires wallonnes et flamandes".

Works (selection)

  • Orchestral works
    • Poème symphonique: Trenmor , after Ossian (1905)
    • Poème héroique (1907-11)
    • Rapsodie wallonne, for piano and orchestra (1910, dedicated to Arthur De Greef )
    • Symphony in D minor (1908)
    • Suite; Contes d'Orient (1909)
  • Chamber music
    • Préludes Moyen Âge (1913) for piano
    • Nocturne for horn, violin, harp and harmonium
    • Piano quintet in b minor (1913/14)
    • Cello Sonata in F sharp minor (1915) (in this he expresses his fear and disgust for the Second World War )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Société de Liègoise de musicologie 1994: Letter from Adolphe Biarent Fernand Quinet .
  2. ↑ Thierry Levaux et al .: Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours. Art in Belgium, Brussels 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7 , p. 69.
  3. ↑ CD booklet CYP7605 (Orch. Philharmonique de Liège, Pierre Bartholomée : Rapsodie Wallone ).
  4. ↑ Riemann Musik Lexikon Person Teil (1959) pp. 162–163 .
personal data
SURNAME Biarent, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Frasnes-lez-Gosselies , Les Bons Villers
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1916
Place of death Mont-sur-Marchienne