Brusselmans, Michel

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Brusselmans, Michel

Brusselmans, Michel, Belgian composer; b. Paris (of Belgian parents), Feb. 12, 1886; d. Brussels, Sept. 20, 1960. He studied with Huberti, Tinel, and Gilson at the Brussels Cons.; won the Agniez Prix in 1914 for his symphonic poem Helène de Sparte. In 1922 he became ed. for the Paris music publisher Jamin, and spent most of his life in France. His music is Romantic in inspiration and programmatic in content.

Works

DRAMATIC: Ballet: Les Néréides (1911); Kermesse flamande (1912); Les Sylphides (on themes of Chopin). orch.:Ouverture fériale (1908); Scènes Breugheliennes (1911); Hélène de Sparte, symphonie poem (1914); Télémaque a Gaulus for Chamber Orch. (1923); 3 syms. (1924; 1934; Levantine, 1956-57); Esquisses flamandes (1927); Légende du gapeau for Horn and Orch. or Piano (1930); Rhapsodie flamande (1931); Scènes provençales (1931); Suite phrygienne (1932); Suite d’après les Caprices de Paganini (1936); Suite divertissement (1937); Rhapsodie for Horn and Orch. (1938); Organ Concerto (1938); Ouverture héroïque (1942); Sinfonietta (1954). chamber: Violin Sonata (1915); Cello Sonata (1916); Prelude and Fugue for 8 Winds (1923); Visages de Paris for Piano (1946). vocal:Jésus, oratorio (1936); Psaume LVI for Soprano, Chorus, and Orch. (1954); songs.

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