Marcel Quinet

Marcel Quinet (born July 6, 1915 in Binche , † December 16, 1986 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert near Brussels ) was a Belgian composer and pianist.

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Marcel Quinet studied at the Mons and Brussels Conservatories . In Brussels he studied with Fernand Quinet , to whom there was no family relationship. Léon Jongen gave him lessons in joint theory and Jean Absil in composition . Quinet received the Belgian Prix ​​de Rome in 1945 for his cantata La Vague et le Sillon .

Then Quinet was director of several local music schools in the Brussels area and taught fugue theory from 1956 to 1959 at the music school for the gifted, the Chapelle musicale Reine-Élisabeth . His works include piano works, chamber music, instrumental concerts and symphonies, as well as various vocal works. He set an opera “Les deux bavards” (1966) and two ballet pieces “La nef des Fous” (1969) and “Images” (1972) to music.

In 1964 he was the composer of the compulsory work, a piano concerto for the Concours Musical Reine Elisabeth , in which the Belgian pianist Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden won 3rd prize. In 1976 Marcel Quinet became a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts

In his compositional work he was initially influenced by Maurice Ravel , Béla Bartók and Paul Hindemith . He was impressed by Bartók and Olivier Messiaen's research into rhythm and modulation . Most of all, however, he was influenced by his teacher Jean Absil. Quinet used the structures of historical music in his works, especially of baroque music , so that he can be classified in the vicinity of a neo-classical current.

Web links

• List of Quinet's works, on the CeBeDeM website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the CeBeDeM website ( memento of February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (in French)