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Leonardus Antony Marinus Riemens (born December 3, 1910 in Zevenbergen ; died April 3, 1985 in Maastricht ) was a Dutch cultural journalist and musicologist .

Life

Leo Riemens grew up in a family of doctors in Amsterdam . He studied musicology in Amsterdam and from 1931 worked as a feature editor for the newspaper Het Vaderland . From 1954 to 1976 he was an opera and television critic for the Telegraaf newspaper . Riemens published numerous articles in the journals Opera , Luister , Gramophone and Opera News . He wrote an opera guide and biography on Maria Callas . At Radio Hilversum , he designed the Uren der Zangkunst series . Riemens owned one of the largest collections of records of his time. For the record series Lebendige Geschichte published by Jürgen Schmidt , he wrote cover texts for almost unknown singers.

With Karl-Josef Kutsch , Riemens published a small encyclopedia of singers under the title Immortal Voices in 1962 . In 1975 the revision as Immortal Voices followed. Singer Lexicon , which was revised with his participation in 1985 and developed into a standard work.

Leo Riemens and Rietje Hendriks are buried in the Tongerseweg cemetery, the tombstone bears the inscription Pace, pace, mio ​​dio .

Fonts (selection)

  • Peter van der Spek ( arrangement ): Groot operaboek. Uniepers, Abcoude 1993.
  • with Karl-Josef Kutsch : Large song dictionary . From 1962 several editions and revised editions
  • Maria Callas. Bruna, Utrecht 1960.
  • De opera. Nelissen, Bilthoven 1958.
  • Ures of the art of force. Opera's beroemde zangers en zangeressen. De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 1954.
  • Thomas Russell Ybarra : Caruso: een gold stem verovert de wereld. Translation from English. Nelissen, Bilthoven 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The authors. In: Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 4, 2003, p. XII.
  2. ↑ on Luister see nl: Luister
  3. ↑ Gottfried Cervenka: Apropos opera. Leo Riemens (1910–1985). ORF eins , December 14, 2010.
  4. ↑ Algemene Begraafplaats Tongerseweg , near Breur Henket
personal data
SURNAME Riemens, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riemens, Leonardus Antony Marinus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cultural journalist and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Zevenbergen
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1985
Place of death Maastricht