Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters | |
---|---|
Born | 4 July 1903 |
Died | 4 July 1986 |
Flor Peeters (Baron Peeters) (born 4 July 1903 in Tielen, died 4 July 1986 in Mechelen) was a Belgian composer, organist and teacher.
Biography
Born and raised in the village of Tielen (in the Kempen region, just on the Belgian side of the Belgian-Dutch border), he was the youngest child in a family of eleven. When sixteen years old, he began his studies at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen (since moved to Leuven), which was named after the nineteenth-century organist Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens. At this college, Peeters's teachers were Lodewijk Mortelmans, Jules Van Nuffel and Oscar Depuydt. Depuydt was well known at the time for his collaboration with the Desmet brothers on the first set of Gregorian accompaniments produced by the Lemmens Institute.
Peeters would later collaborate with Van Nuffel and the Institute's other professors, to produce the Nova Organi Harmonia. In 1923 he became an organ teacher at the Institute; simultaneously he acquired the position of chief organist at the St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, which he held for most of the rest of his life; Van Nuffel had already been choirmaster there for many years.
As an organist and pedagogue, Peeters enjoyed great renown, giving concerts and liturgical masterclasses all over the world. He also made recordings of sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century organ music; some of these have been reissued in recent years on compact disc. Most of his own pieces (he wrote well over 100) were for his own instrument, for choir, or for both. He died on his eighty-third birthday; fifteen years before, he had been made a baron by King Baudouin.
Peeters studied Renaissance music, particularly of the school of Flemish polyphony. This style was also absorbed into his music. In addition, he showed an interest in twentieth-century techniques such as polyrhythms and polytonality.[1]
Honours
- Knight Commander in the Order of Saint Gregory the Great. [2]
References
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/flor-peeters-mn0001646482/biography
- ↑ KBR, Brussel ref. Mu006 / Mus-Obj-390
External links
- Flor Peeters on Studiecentrum voor Vlaamse Muziek
- List of works
- Further Biographical Details
- Nova Organi Harmonia
- Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel now houses most works and manuscripts of Peeters, after the bankruptcy of CeBeDeM in 2015.
Recordings
- Giuseppe Galante - Flor Peeters: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op.51: I. Allegro
- Giuseppe Galante - Flor Peeters: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op.51: II. Aria
- Giuseppe Galante - Flor Peeters: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op.51: III. Finale (Toccata)