Peter Benoit

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Peter Leonard Leopold Benoit (born August 17, 1834, Harelbeke Flanders; died March 8, 1901), is a famous Flemish composer. His father and a local village organist were his first teachers. In 1851 Benoit entered the Brussels Conservatoire, where he remained 'til 1855, studying chiefly under FJ Fétis, During this period he composed music to many melodramas, and to an opera Le Village dans les montagnes for the Park theatre, of which in 1856 he became conductor. He won a government prize and a money grant in 1857 by his cantata Le Meurtre d'Abel, and this enabled him to travel through Germany. In course of his journeyings he found time to write a considerable amount of music, as well as an essay L'École de musique flamande et son avenir. Fétis loudly praised his Hesse solennelle, which Benoit produced at Brussels on his return from Germany. In 1861 he visited Paris for the production of his opera Le Roi des Aulnes ("Erlkonig"), which, though accepted by the Théâtre-Lyrique, was never mounted; while there he conducted at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. Again returning home, he astonished a section of the musical world by the production at Antwerp of a sacred tetralogy, consisting of his Cantate de Noël, the above-mentioned Mass, a Te Deum and a Requiem, in which were embodied to a large extent his theories of Flemish music. It was in consequence of his passion for the founding of an entirely separate Flemish school that Benoit changed his name from Pierre to Peter. By prodi

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albums

BENOIT: Piano Concerto / Flute Concerto

Benoit: Hoogmis 'Messe Solennelle' / Requiem

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Flemish Romantic and Impressionist Piano Music

De Schelde

In Flanders' Fields Vol. 15: Belgian Piano Music

Religious Tetralogy

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Peter Benoit: Heaven and Hell (Live)

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Klara Top 75

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Benoit: Forgotten Piano Romantics, Vol. 1 - Tales and Ballads, Op. 34

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Benoit: Hoogmis (Messe Solennelle)

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Klara Top 75 - 6

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Romantic Orchestral Music by Flemish Composers, Vol. 1

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