Cello and Piano SKU: IS.VCP4195EM Composed by Flor Alpaerts. Strings - Ce...(+)
Cello and Piano
SKU:
IS.VCP4195EM
Composed
by Flor Alpaerts. Strings
- Cello. Metropolis Music
Publishers #VCP4195EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.VCP4195EM).
ISBN
9790365041954.
In
1901, Flor Alpaerts
finished his music
studies at the Flemish
School of Music of
Antwerp, which later
became the Royal Flemish
Conservatory. He studied
harmony and composition
with Jan Blockx. In 1903
he became professor at
this institute and from
1934 until 1941 its
director. For one season
(1922-1923) he was also
director of the Royal
Flemish Opera House of
Antwerp together with the
Bass Arthur Steurbaut.
His fame, as a composer
and a conductor, came
shortly after World War
I, when he succeeded in
1919 Eduard Keurvels as
conductor of the concerts
organized by the Royal
Zoological Society of
Antwerp and as artistic
director of the Peter
Benoit Fonds. He also
conducted the choral
group Arti Vocali. As a
composer, Flor Alpaerts
was the leading figure in
the Flemish
impressionistic movement.
An impressionism that
came closer to Richard
Strauss and Ottorino
Respighi than to Claude
Debussy. A highlight in
this direction was the
symphonic poem Pallieter
(1921-1924). With his
suite James Ensor,
inspired by four works of
the Ostend painter, he
created an
expressionistic work. In
his later compositions he
turned to
neo-classicism.
