Adolphe Biarent

Adolphe Biarent ( born October 16, 1871 in Frasnes- lez- Gosselies (Les Bons Villers ); † February 4, 1916 in Mont- sur -Marchienne ) was a Belgian composer and conductor.

Life and work

Adolphe Biarent first studied at the Brussels Conservatory. Among his teachers there included, for example Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath ( counterpoint ), Joseph Dupont (harmony ), Gustav Huberty (practical harmony ) and Alphonse Mailly (organ). Later he continued his studies in Ghent continued (including in Émile Mathieu and Adolphe Samuel ). After completing his studies at the Conservatory, he took private lessons with Martin Lussens.

1901, a Belgian first Prix de Rome, he was awarded for the cantata " Œdipe à Colone ". After returning from the associated traveling through Italy, Austria and Germany, he settled in Charleroi, where he worked as a music teacher, conductor and composer. Among his pupils there was also the cellist, conductor and composer Fernand Quinet, with whom he later corresponded.

Biarents comparatively narrow catalog of works includes little more than 20 compositions: Orchestral works ( for which in recent times especially the conductor Pierre Bartholomée, thanks to an initiative by the company " Les Amis d' Adolphe Biarent " began ) and chamber music. His music is in late-Romantic tradition of César Franck and Vincent d' Indy, but also leaves German influences ( Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss) recognize. Together with Gustave Roullier he published a collection of popular Belgian song good, " mélodies populaires et wallonnes flamandes ".

Works (selection)

  • Orchestral works Poème symphonique: Trenmor, by Ossian (1905 )
  • Poème héroique ( 1907-11 )
  • Rapsodie Wallonne, for piano and orchestra (1910, Arthur De Greef dedicated )
  • Symphony in D minor (1908 )
  • Suite; Contes d' Orient (1909 )
  • Préludes Moyen Âge (1913 ) for piano
  • Nocturne for horn, violin, harp and harmonium
  • Piano Quintet in B minor (1913 /14)
  • Cello Sonata in F sharp minor ( 1915) ( in this he expresses his fear and loathing of the 2nd World War )
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