Marcel Quinet

Marcel Quinet ( born July 6, 1915 in Binche, † 16 December 1986 Woluwe -Saint -Lambert in Brussels) was a Belgian composer and pianist.

Life and work

Marcel Quinet studied at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels. In Brussels, he studied with Fernand Quinet, to which there was no kinship. In joint doctrine taught him Léon Jongen and in composition Jean Absil. Quinet received in 1945 the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata La Vague et le Sillon.

Then Quinet was director of several local music schools in the Brussels area and taught from 1956 to 1959 fugue, at the Music School for gifted children, the Chapelle Musicale Reine Élisabeth. Among his works are piano works, chamber music, concertos and symphonies, and various vocal works. He set to music the opera " Les deux bavards " (1966 ), and two ballets " La nef of Fous " (1969) and "Images " (1972).

In 1964, he was the composer of duty work, a piano concerto for the Concours Reine Elisabeth Musical, in which the Belgian pianist Jean -Claude Vanden Eynden won the 3rd prize. In 1976, Marcel Quinet member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts

In his compositions he was initially influenced by Maurice Ravel, Bela Bartok and Paul Hindemith. Him impressed the research of Bartók and Olivier Messiaen in terms of rhythm and modulation. Most, however, impressed him his teacher Jean Absil. Quinet used in his works, the structures of historical music, especially baroque music, so that it should be classified in the vicinity of a neo -classical flow.