Modern Composers of Europe Being An Account of the Most Recent Musical Progres
Modern Composers of Europe Being An Account of the Most Recent Musical Progres
Elson Arthur
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The new French school, the Italian opera composers, the Bohemian masters are but a type of this form of patriotism, and find their counter- part in the young Scandinavians and the modern Russians. The Slav motto, " Para Domoi " (Let Us Go Home), has been applied to music in all countries, and we even see learned writers and ac- complished composers trying to prove the exist- ence of a distinctively American school. The glories of the old Flemish days are past, but enthusiastic efforts have been... made to found a new Belgian school, and there is now a long list of native composers. At the head of them, for many years, stood Pierre Leonard Leopold Benoit, or Peter Benoit, as he preferred to be called. He was born at Harlebeke, in the western part of Flanders, on August 17, 1834. His great love of music caused his father to give him lessons, and resulted in some 184 THE NETHERLANDS 185 juvenile efforts at composition. When he reached the age of seventeen he received more solid in- struction, for he was sent to the Brussels con- servatory, where he soon became a favourite of the great teacher Fetis.
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