Flor Alpaerts

Flor Alpaerts ( born September 12, 1876 in Antwerp, † October 5, 1954 in Antwerp) was a Belgian conductor and composer.

Life

Alpaerts studied until 1901 at the Vlaamse Muziekschool in Antwerp ( the later Flemish Conservatory ), including harmony and composition with Jan Blockx. In 1903 he received a professorship for general music theory. Between 1919 and 1951 he conducted by the ' Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dier customer " Antwerp organized concerts, was artistic director of the " Fund Peter Benoit " and also conducted the choir " Arti Vocali ". As a conductor, he was not only in Belgium but also in other European countries, and made an important contribution to the dissemination of music of his Flemish homeland.

In the season 1922/1923 he directed (together with Arthur Steurbaut ), the Royal Flemish Opera in Antwerp. From 1934 to 1941, Director of the Vlaamse Alpaerts Conservatorium.

The website of Belgian obediences appoint him as a known Freemason.

Work

The music Alpaerts ' is colored partly impressionistic, but then also uses means of expressionism to turn to the neo-classicism in the late work.

Among the best known works Alpaerts ' is one of the four images by the Belgian painter James Ensor inspired Ensor Suite ( 1931). In his catalog of works by, while symphonic poems (about Pallieter, 1924), a violin concerto, a Poem for Flute and Orchestra, stage music, an opera ( Shylock, 1913), chamber music ( including four string quartets ), piano and vocal works.