Arthur De Greef

Arthur De Greef ( born October 10, 1862 in Leuven, † August 29 1940 in Brussels) was a Belgian pianist and composer.

Life

Arthur De Greef studied piano at the Conservatoire from 1873 Royal de Musique in Brussels at Louis Brassin, a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. His other teachers were Joseph Dupont (harmony ), François Auguste Gevaert (composition) and Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath ( counterpoint). As a 17 -year-old, he graduated with honors ("ex aequo " with Isaac Albéniz, who dedicated to him his own compositions ), and then went to Weimar to continue his studies with Franz Liszt. Further studies led him to Paris to Camille Saint- Saëns.

During a long and successful career as a pianist De Greef toured eg France, Germany, England, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Poland and Russia. De Greef was befriended by Edvard Grieg, as the best interpreter of his music, which he had met, called him. From 1887 to 1930 he had even held a piano professor at the Conservatory of Brussels.

Work

De Greef began to compose himself at the age of about 30 years. ( No. 2 in B Minor, 1930 No. 1 in C Minor, 1914) as his most important works, two piano concertos apply. The first concert was dedicated to Saint- Saëns, one of the A minor concerto Grieg comparable fame predicted the work (which should not be set, however ). De Greefs music is in the romantic tradition of Schumann and Grieg.