Hendrik van den Abeele

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Hendrik van den Abeele , also Henri van den Abeele , (born December 6, 1869 in Bruges , † December 27, 1931 in Mol ) was a Belgian organist , choir director , composer and music teacher .

Life

Time until the First World War

Hendrik's mother was born in Ireland. His uncle was a conductor in Bruges. He received his first composition lessons from Jean Baptiste Accolay at the City Music School in Bruges . He achieved a certain skill in composing for strings and string quartets. He then studied for two years at the Conservatory in Brussels organ with Alphonse Mailly and harmony with Gustave Huberti (1843-1910). He then studied the organ in Ghent with Joseph Tilborghs and counterpoint with Adolphe D'Hulst (1851-1916). After graduating, he was music director and organist at St. Walburga in Bruges for ten years. During this time Guido Gezelle , some of whose poems he later set to music , was chaplain at the church. In 1906 he received a prize in a competition advertised by the government for composing national songs for the school . In 1908 he went to St. Martin's Cathedral in Ypres as a cantor , where he became director of the music school. He attached great importance to the concerts of the music school and performed cantatas by Peter Benoit , Paul Gilson and August De Boeck . He began to compose more often again. In 1913 he won several awards in an international composition competition from Editoria Musicale Genovese . In 1914 a poolse dans [Polish dance] was awarded a prize at an international composition competition in Lyon. The jury included Charles-Marie Widor .

The First World War

The First World War ended this successful phase of life. Ypres was very competitive. So van den Abeele fled to Cognac in the Charente . His music library with hundreds of manuscripts and scores of his works, some of which were still unfinished, was irretrievably lost in the fires in Ypres during the war. In France he started composing again, including songs based on French texts. His cantata Wie is als God? [Who is like God?] Based on a text by Guido Gezelle has been performed several times in France and England.

After the First World War

After the war, Ypres was completely destroyed, including van den Abeele's house and the music school. He had to build his career again step by step. He found a job as an organist in Kortenberg and then as a teacher at the Koninklijk Atheneum [Royal Atheneum] in Ghent . At a composition competition in Paris in 1920 , his Requiem was awarded a prize from 226 entries. In 1923 he was appointed officier d'académie in France . These successes abroad are not reflected in Belgium. After a rejected application for the position of director of the municipal music school in Kortrijk, he retires to Loenhout in the Kempen region. In 1926 he went to Mol, where he taught at the newly founded city music school and was organist at St. Peter's Church until his death.

Works

Van den Abeele was not a music innovator, his style can be described as neoclassical . The innovators Richard Strauss , Richard Wagner , Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud leave him rather unimpressed. He uses the classics and the Flemish masters rather than his role models.

Compositions listed in worldcat.org, the Bibliotheque Royal de Belgique or in the catalog of the Koninklijk Conservatorium of the AP Hogeschool Antwerp

  • Avondlied [evening song]; Incipit: Hoe vriendelijk strijkt de avond neer; Text: Karel Quaedvlieg; in: Liederen voor ons volk; Excelsior; Antwerp; 1907 OCLC 900871827
  • Avondmuziek for voice and piano; Text: BVMeurs
  • Grootmoeders wiegelied with piano accompaniment. Text: P. Placidus Eykens.
  • Lente-bloesems [spring blossoms]. Incipit : Lief en zacht de zonne laughs op bloesemende are booming. Romance for soprano voice. Dedicated to Jozefa Matheve. In: Het Vlaamsche lied, Volume 19: 3; Brussels; OCLC 915824604
  • Lieve zuster [dear sister]; Incipit: Wat ziet mijn zuster bleek en droef . Text: Lambrecht Lambrechts. Dedicated to Doctor V. Dewals.
  • Van 't lieve kleine Belgenland [From dear little Belgerland] ´. Incipit: In France men lekkere wijn drinks; in: [Collection of Patriotic Songs for School]; Brussels 1905 OCLC 915638426
  • Sur l'album d'une jeune orpheline romance pour soprano ou tenor avec accompagnement de piano, op. 15 [from the album for an orphan for soprano or tenor with piano accompaniment]; Incipit: Enfant, do vas quitter. Text: Thonissen. OCLC 915665784
  • Troost letter. Incipit: Hoe plots de bange Scheiding klepte. Text: Lambrecht Lambrechts. In: Het Vlaamsche lied. Vol. 16: 1

Prize-winning compositions at composition competitions before the First World War

1913 in Genoa at Editoria Musicale Genovese

  • Twaalf voorspelen voor orgel [ Twelve Preludes for Organ ]; awarded with a diploma of honor and a gold medal of honor
  • Missa Idesbaldi; honorable message first class
  • Perfice for mixed choir and organ; honorable report, second class
  • Romance for violoncello and organ; honorable message first class

1914 in Lyon:

  • Poolse dans [Polish dance]

Compositions he composed in France

  • Hymn for Joan of Arc
  • Folk cantata Quis ut Deus ?. How is it as god? [Who is like God?] Text: Guido Gezelle ; for mixed choir and piano; or for single voice, piano and fanfare
  • Songs on French texts

Compositions after the First World War

  • 1920 Requiem

Other compositions

  • Song in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua for solo voice, four-part mixed choir and organ

Songs like:

  • 't Goedendaglied [The Good Day Song]
  • In 't diepste van mijn herte [In the depths of my heart]
  • Hand in hand; Text: P: Eykens
  • Kermislied

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Nieuwsbrief 57 (May 2007) | Study center voor Vlaamse Muziek. Study center voor Vlaamse Muziek, May 2007, accessed on April 5, 2017 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jan Dewilde: Van den Abeele, Hendrik | Study center voor Vlaamse Muziek. Study Center Vlaamse Muziek, accessed on April 5, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Schoolliederen . In: De Poperinghenaar . Poperinge December 2, 1906, p. 4 (Dutch, http://www.historischekranten.be/issue/DPO/1906-12-02/edition/null/page/3 "> De Poperinghenaar (1904-1914, 1919-1944) | 2 december 1906 | pagina 3).
  4. ↑ Benoemingen . In: De Poperinghenaar . Poperinge January 5, 1908, p. 4 (Dutch, http://www.historischekranten.be/issue/DPO/1908-01-05/edition/null/page/4 "> De Poperinghenaar (1904-1914, 1919-1944) | 5 januari 1908 | pagina 4).
  5. ↑ a b Hendrik van den Abeele . In: Het Ypersche Volk . Ypres December 20, 1913, p. 2 (Dutch, http://www.historischekranten.be/issue/HYV/1913-12-20/edition/null/page/2 "> Het Ypersche Volk (1910-1915, 1927-32) | 20 december 1913 | pagina 2).
  6. ↑ Hendrik van den Abeele: Grootmoeders wiegelied met pianobegeleiding. Retrieved April 25, 2017 (Dutch).
  7. ↑ Lieve zuster. Retrieved April 25, 2017 (Dutch).
  8. ↑ Hendrik van den Abeele, Lambrecht Lambrechts: Lieve zuster . In: Het Vlaamsche lied . tape 14 , no. 6 . Brussels (Dutch).
  9. ↑ Hendrik van den Abeele, Lambrecht Lambrechts: Troost letter. Retrieved April 25, 2017 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Van den Abeele, Hendrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van den Abeele, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian organist, choir director, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1931
Place of death Mole