Dieudonné Dagnelies

Dieudonné Dagnelies (born September 9, 1825 in Lobbes , † June 19, 1894 in Charleroi ) was a Belgian composer and conductor .

He got in touch with music at an early age. First in a small orchestra of his father, who was himself an amateur clarinetist. When a wind orchestra with a conductor Benoit Constant Fauconnier was founded in Lobbes in 1837 , he played Piston . After he gave an excellent concert after a short time, he was courted by other even larger wind orchestras and he decided to join the Mariemont wind orchestra . This also gave him the opportunity to work as an employee in a glass factory to which the wind orchestra belonged. In 1847 he became conductor of the Harmonie des Verreries des Mariemont wind orchestra . He studied privately with the conductor of the neighboring Harmonie de Saint Marie d'Oignies , the famous Jean-Valentin Bender . 1854 named Bender the docile students in the Harmonie de Saint Marie d'Oignies to sous-chef . After Bender's death in 1873, he became the conductor of the well-known harmony orchestra. But he also successfully conducted 28 other wind orchestras in the Charleroi area and in the north of France .

In 1848 he moved to Mariemont to devote himself entirely to music. Later he founded a wind instrument trade in Charleroi.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

• Le Marchiennois
• Grande Marche Triomphale
• Grande Fantaisie Militaire
• I Masnadieri Overture
• Le Bords de la Meuse Overture
• Les Clechettes Mazurka

Educational works

• Trumpet school
• Cornet school