Alphonse Mailly

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Alphonse Jean Ernest Mailly (born November 27, 1833 in Brussels , † January 10, 1918 in Elsene ) was a Belgian organist and composer.

Life

Alphonse Mailly was born in 1833 as the son of a conductor and orchestra cellist. He studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Lados, Charles Bosselet, Jean-Baptiste Michelot, Christian Friedrich Girschner and Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens . He received first prize in music theory (1847), piano (1850) and organ (1854) and then began a career as a pianist (especially song accompaniment) and organist in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Finisterraekerk in Brussels.

In 1858 he was enthusiastically celebrated at a series of concerts in Paris; Berlioz called it "L'un des plus savants virtuoso que l'art modern du grand orgue ait produits". Concerts in London and Amsterdam followed. In 1861 he was appointed professor for piano at the Conservatory in Brussels, four years later he took the position of his teacher Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens and received the professorship for organ, which he held until he succeeded Alphonse Desmet in 1903. His students include Léon Dubois , August de Boeck , Adolphe Wouters , Léon Jadin , Alfred Mahy , Arthur Letondal , Adolphe Biarent and Léandre Vilain . In 1869 Mailly was appointed organist at the Carmelite Church in Brussels.

Works

  • Organ works: u. a. his best-known work, the Sonata No. 1, Méditiation , Feuillets d'Album , Badinage , Evocation , Prière , Valse mélancolique and Sérénade .
  • Numerous works for harmonium and piano, motets and chamber music (serenade for flute, viola, cello, piano and organ; piano trio)

literature

  • Eugène de Seyn: Dictionnaire biographique des sciences, des lettres et des arts en Belgique . Volume 2, L'Avenir, Brussels 1936.
  • Walter Callaert: Alphonse Mailly . In: Orgelkunst , September 1997, pp. 2–36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Jan Dewilde: Alphonse Mailly in: Study Center Vlaamse Muziek (SVM)
personal data
SURNAME Mailly, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mailly, Alphonse Jean Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1918
Place of death Elsene