Jan Caeyers

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Jan Caeyers (* 1953 ) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and university professor. Caeyers is considered a Beethoven specialist. He integrates his personal work as a musicologist and performing artist into the figure of Beethoven . He published a biography of Ludwig van Beethoven in Amsterdam in 2009, which is now considered a reference work worldwide. This work was published in 2012 in a German and a little later in an English edition.

life and work

Jan Caeyers studied orchestral conducting at the Vienna University of Music, flute at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and musicology at the University of Leuven . He specialized in the music of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1985 he received his doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven with a thesis on Jean-Philippe Rameau .

In the 1980s he founded the Nieuw Belgisch Kamerorkest with a group of young musicians . In 1993 he founded the Belgian Beethoven Academie (1993-2006) and was the musical director of this ensemble for many years. He gave numerous concerts with this orchestra at the international art center deSingel in Antwerp, Leuven, Brussels and as part of the Flanders Festival. From 1994 to 1997 Caeyer's assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna. There he worked intensively with Bernard Haitink and Pierre Boulez . In 1996 he conducted the opening tour of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Austria, Germany and Italy. Motivated by his work on Beethoven's biography, Caeyers founded the new Antwerp-based Beethoven orchestra Le Concert Olympique in October 2010 . He himself leads this orchestra and uses and with this orchestra to translate the knowledge gained while writing Beethoven's scientific biography into musical art. As a freelance conductor, Caeyers has worked with opera houses, orchestras and choirs across Europe. Mention should be made here: The Stuttgart State Opera, orchestras in Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Granada, Florence, Prague and the Philharmonie von Flanders as well as the Arnold Schönberg Choir in Vienna and the Nederlands Kamerkoor .

In addition, Caeyers has been professor of music analysis since 1985, and since 2001 part-time at the Faculty of Musicology at the Catholic University of Leuven . From December 16 to 20, 2019, Caeyers opened the Beethoven year 2020 for the SWR as a guest presenter of the SWR2 music lesson with the five-part series Beethoven - His Path .

In 2013 Caeyers was awarded the Antwerp Province Culture Prize for his Beethoven biography.

Works by Jan Caeyers

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Traité de l'harmonie" (1722) en de ontwikkeling van het musical theory thinking in de zeventiende eeuw in France: een bijdrage tot de epistemologie van de harmonische tonaliteit (doctoral thesis Leuven, 1984)
  • The "Traité de l'harmonie" (1722) by Jean-Philippe Rameau en de ontwikkeling van het muziektheoretische thinking in Frankrijk (=  Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten [Ed.]: Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie venoor Wetenschappen, Letter en Schone Kunsten van België. Class of Fine Arts . Vol. 51, No. 47 ). Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België, Brussel 1989, ISBN 90-6569-425-0 (Dutch, preparation of the doctoral thesis).
  • Beethoven . een biography. De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 2009, ISBN 978-90-234-2906-7 (Dutch).
  • Beethoven . The lonely revolutionary. A biography. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-74941-4 (832 pages, Dutch: Beethoven . Amsterdam 2009. Translated by Andreas Ecke ).
    • Beethoven . The lonely revolutionary. A biography. Completely revised and updated special edition edition. CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-74941-4 (XII, 833 pp., Dutch: Beethoven . Amsterdam 2009. Translated by Andreas Ecke ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Le Concert Olympique: Conductor Jan Caeyers.
  2. ↑ a b c d KU Leuven - Department of Musicology: Jan Caeyers.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Perlentaucher: Jan Caeyers.
  4. ^ Ciando GmbH: Beethoven - The lonely revolutionary (book review). Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Kunstenpunt: Beethoven Academie. In: http://muziekcentrum.kunsten.be . Retrieved December 20, 2019 (Flemish).
  6. ↑ Jan Caeyers: Beethoven - His way. In: SWR2. December 2019, accessed December 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Caeyers, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian conductor, musicologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953