Louis Delune

Louis Delune (born March 15, 1876 in Charleroi , † January 5, 1940 in Paris ) was a Belgian composer , conductor and pianist.

Life

Louis Delune was trained at the Brussels Conservatory , where Edgar Tinel was one of his teachers. In 1900 Delune won the first prize of the “Académie Royale” for his piano concerto. In 1905 his cantata “La mort du roi Reynaud” received the Belgian Prix ​​de Rome . After an unsuccessful attempt to set up a symphonic concert society (Société symphonique des Nouveaux Concerts) for contemporary music, Delune moved to Paris in 1906, but frequently visited his hometown Charleroi and Brussels as a conductor and pianist, where he taught as a piano teacher at the Conservatory. During the First World War he sought refuge in exile in London and later assumed French nationality.

Delune's oeuvre remained relatively unknown, although he left behind works in a wide variety of genres. He wrote two operas, piano and cello concerts, several symphonies, a ballet and piano pieces, string quartets and other chamber music.

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Louis Delune in the International Music Score Library Project
• Photographs by Delune on Gallica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thierry Levaux et al .: Dictionnaire des compositeurs de Belgique du Moyen Age à nos jours. Art in Belgium, Bruxelles 2006, ISBN 2-930338-37-7 , p. 168.