Jan Bloks ( Dutch Jan Blockx , full name - Joannes Josephus Blocks Dutch. Joannes Josephus Blockx ; January 25, 1851 , Antwerp , Belgium - May 26, 1912 , ibid.) - Belgian composer, conductor.
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| Date of Birth | January 25, 1851 |
| Place of Birth | Antwerp , Belgium |
| Date of death | May 26, 1912 (61 years old) |
| Place of death | Antwerp , Belgium |
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| A country |  Belgium |
| Professions | composer conductor |
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Biography
Student of Frans Aert, Joseph Callaert (Antwerp Conservatory), Peter Benoit (Flemish School of Music) and Karl Reinecke (Leipzig Conservatory). In 1886 he became a teacher at the Flemish School of Music, and in 1901 - the director of the Flemish Conservatory. One of the founders of the Flemish trend in Belgian music. In his works he used Belgian folk songs, stories from Flemish history.
The author of works for musical theater, the plots of which are related to Flemish history: the opera Princess of the Taverns (1896), Til Uhlenpiegel (1900), The Sea Bride (1901), staged in Antwerp in the Flemish Opera, the ballet Milenka (1886), staged in Brussels by the La Monnet Theater. He also had symphonic, vocal and other works.
Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (1903).
He died of a stroke in 1912. He was buried at the Antwerp cemetery Schonsselhof .
Works
- Symphony No. 1
- opera / Op den Stroom (1875)
- opera / De Klokke Roelandt (1888)
- opera Princess of the Tavern / De Herbergprinses (1896, Antwerp), one of the first Flemish operas)
- opera The Bride of the Sea / De Bruid der Zee (1901)
- opera Til Ulenspiegel / Tijl Uilenspiegel (1900, Brussels, 2nd edition 1920, ibid.)
- comic opera “Martin Martin” / Maître Martin
- opera / Die Scheldezang (1903)
- opera "Rita" / Rita
- Baldie Opera
- opera / De Kapel
- opera / Iets Vergeten
- ballet "Milenka" / Milenka
- cantata "Flemish dances" / Vlaamse Dansen
- oratorio "Sea" for orchestra / De Zee
- overture "Rubens" / Rubens
Literature
- Musical Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. G.V. Keldysh. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. - p. 73 - ISBN 5-85270-033-9
- Felix Blockx = J. Blockx. - Bruxelles, 1943.
- Bloks Jan // Theater Encyclopedia (edited by S. S. Mokulsky). - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1961-1965. - T. 1 .
Links
- Ian Blocks at Allmusic