Arthur De Greef
Arthur De Greef (born October 10, 1862 in Leuven , † August 29, 1940 in Brussels ) was a Belgian pianist and composer .
Life
Arthur De Greef studied piano from 1873 at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels with Louis Brassin , a student of Ignaz Moscheles . His other teachers were Joseph Dupont (harmony), François-Auguste Gevaert (composition) and Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath (counterpoint). At the age of 17 he graduated with honors ("ex aequo" with Isaac Albéniz , who also dedicated his own compositions to him) and then went to Weimar to continue his studies with Franz Liszt . Further studies also took him to Paris to study with Camille Saint-Saëns .
During a long and successful career as a pianist, De Greef undertook concert tours e.g. B. to France, Germany, England, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Poland and Russia. De Greef became friends with Edvard Grieg , who described him as the best interpreter of his music he had met. From 1887 to 1930 he himself was a piano professor at the Brussels Conservatory .
plant
De Greef did not begin to compose until he was about 30 years old. His most important works are two piano concertos (No. 1 in C minor, 1914; No. 2 in B flat minor, 1930). The first concerto was dedicated to Saint-Saëns, who predicted that the work would achieve a fame comparable to Grieg's A minor concerto (which, however, should not come about). De Greef's music follows the romantic tradition of Schumann and Grieg.
literature
- SL, Albert van der Linden: De Greef, Arthur. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Works by and about Arthur De Greef in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brief information from the Muziekcentrum Vlaanderen with CD information (Dutch)
- Biography at naxos.com (engl.)
- Sheet music and audio files by Arthur De Greef in the International Music Score Library Project
- Arthur De Greef at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Greef, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lions |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1940 |
| Place of death | Brussels |