Henri Verbrugghen
Henri Adrien Marie Verbrugghen (born August 1, 1873 in Brussels , † November 12, 1934 in Northfield / Minnesota ) was a Belgian violinist, conductor and music teacher.
Verbrugghen performed as a violinist at the age of eight and studied from 1886 to 1889 at the Brussels Conservatory with Jenő Hubay . In 1888 he traveled to England with Eugène Ysaÿe . From 1893 he was a member of the Scottish Orchestra Company in Glasgow, since 1903 its concertmaster under Frederic Hymen Cowen . In the summer he performed in Llandudno with an orchestra under Jules Rivière , and was also a member of the Lamoureux Concerts for three years . He appeared with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1899 under the direction of Henry Wood . From 1903 he worked with him for three seasons as concertmaster at the summer promenade concerts of the Queen's Hall Orchestra in London.
In addition, Verbrugghen taught violin, chamber and orchestral music at the Athenaeum in Glasgow and in 1904 became violin professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. From 1903 he performed with his own string quartet, and in 1907 he gave the English premiere of Jean Sibelius ' violin concerto. In 1911 he became conductor of the Glasgow Choral Union and performed as a conductor in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Munich and Saint Petersburg over the next few years.
In 1915 Ambrose Carmichael appointed him director of the newly founded New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney for five years , where Roland Foster , Alfred Hill , Frank Hutchens , Cyril Monk and William Arundel Orchard were among his employees. He taught chamber music himself, gave 24 concerts a year with his string quartet and founded a symphony orchestra with which he performed in Melbourne, Adelaide and New Zealand.
In 1922 Verbrugghen went to the USA, where he led the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra for nine years as the successor to Emil Oberhoffer . In 1931 he suffered a stroke, after which he had to give up his conducting business. From 1933 until his death, he directed the music department at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The work of Ludwig van Beethoven was at the center of Verbrugghen's repertoire , which earned him the reputation of a Beethoven conductor par excellence .
Web links
- Australian Dictionary of Biography - Verbrugghen, Henri Adrien Marie
- Bach Cantatas - Henri Verbruggen
- Project Gutenberg Australia - Dictionary of Australien Biography - Verbruggen, Henri
- Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909: Henri Verbruggen
- The Glasgow Story - Henri Verbruggen
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Verbrugghen, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verbrugghen, Henri Adrien Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian conductor, violinist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1934 |
| Place of death | Northfield , Minnesota |