François de Munck

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François de Munck (born October 6, 1815 in Brussels ; † February 28, 1854 there ) was a Belgian cellist and composer.

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François de Munck received his first music lessons from his father before he became a student of Nicolas-Joseph Platel and Adrien-François Servais at the École royale de Musique , later the Brussels Conservatory . At the age of 19 he received his final diploma (Premier Prix) in 1835 and acted as the successor to his teacher, who had died shortly before. From 1840 he went on concert tours through various European countries. Probably for health reasons, due to a disorderly lifestyle, according to François-Joseph Fétis , he neglected his work before 1845, so in 1848 Servais received the cello class de Muncks in Brussels. Then de Munck moved to London, where he had a job at what was then the Queen's Theater . He returned to Brussels in 1853, where he died a year later.

His son Ernest de Munck , Isidore de Swert (1830–1896) and Guillaume Paque (1825–1876) are among his most important students .

His only known work today are the Fantaisie et Variations sur un thème russe Op. 1 (Mainz).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Riemann: Musik-Lexikon, first volume, p. 236 (1918)
  2. ↑ Thierry Levaux: Le Dictionnaire des Compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours , p 456, Editions: "Art in Belgium" in 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7
  3. ^ De Munck, François . In: L'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (ed.): Biographie Nationale . tape 5 . Bruylant Christophe, Brussels 1876, Sp. 580 (French, direct download [PDF; accessed February 4, 2020]). Available under Volumes at the Académie Royale de Belgique.
  4. ↑ Entry on Cello.org
personal data
SURNAME Munck, François de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demunck, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1854
Place of death Brussels