Emmanuel Durlet
Emmanuel Durlet (born October 11, 1893 in Antwerp , † February 7, 1977 there ) was a Belgian pianist and composer .
Life
Emmanuel Durlets was born the son of the architect Frans Durlet, who in turn was the son of the well-known architect Frans-Andries Durlet .
He later studied piano with Frans Lenaerts at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music and passed his exams with distinction at the age of 16. He then studied harmony with Edward Verheyden , composition with Lodewijk Mortelman and, from 1912, interpretation studies at the master school for piano of the Royal Imperial Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Leopold Godowsky . He was unable to finish the latter because the war broke out and returned to his hometown.
From 1918 onwards he played all 32 Beethoven sonatas from memory in ten performances within a two-month period . He gave numerous national and international concerts and solo evenings and was considered the "poet of the piano". From 1920 he taught for 39 years as a professor at the Royal Antwerp Conservatory of Music. There he developed the method “I will play the piano well” and published his work “Piano study and playing according to new knowledge”. From 1933 he composed his own works, a total of around 50 piano works, around 80 small piano pieces for young people, the concert for piano and orchestra "Middeleeuwse Sproke", the concert for violin and orchestra "De kapel van Maria Magdalena extra muros", the sonata for violin and piano “Verluchte verhalen”, a new piano version of the piano concerto by Peter Benoit , various works for piano and other instruments as well as for voice and piano and more than 300 works by Flemish harpsichordists of the 18th century adapted for the piano.
On November 29, 1976, the Emmanuel Durlet Fund vzw was founded with the aim of keeping Durlet's figure and work alive. Since its inception, it has published more than 130 of his works and two long-playing records.
In 1978 his former piano student Juliane Castro donated the "International Emmanuel Durlet Prize for Piano".
Web links
- Works by and about Emmanuel Durlet in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Curriculum vitae on the Emmanuel-Durlet.be website (in English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Durlet, Emmanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th February 1977 |
| Place of death | Antwerp |