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Irène Fuerison
Irène Fuerison, née Van Santen, (8 January 1875 - 26 June 1931) was a Belgian composer. Biography Irène Van Santen was born in Ghent to a tradesman, August Van Santen, and a contralto singer, Florine Lepla, who was a graduate of the conservatoire of Ghent (class of Louis Cabel, 1867) and who performed in public at least until 1878. Irène learned to play piano and maybe to sing as well. In 1893, she married the lawyer Joseph Fuerison and assumed his name. They had one daughter in 1899, named Madeleine. The Fuerisons lived in a mansion in Ghent and, while being fluent in Flemish, belonged to the French-speaking middleclass. They spent the First World War in Ghent. Fuerison was widowed in 1921 after her husband suffered a stroke. She had been visually impaired for several years by then. Fuerison died at her home in Ghent in 1931. She bequeathed a fund for a prize to encourage promising young Belgian composers; the Irène Fuerison-prize is being awarded every two years since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Belgian Classical Composers
This is a list of Belgian classical composers, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names. It includes composers of classical music who were born within Belgium (after the establishment of the country in 1830) or became permanent residents there. It also includes those living before 1830 who were born or resident within the borders of modern Belgium (see Southern Netherlands). A * Joseph Abaco (1710–1805) * Jean Absil (1893–1974) * Jean-Baptiste Accolay (1833–1900) * Emmanuel Adriaenssen (c. 1554–1604) * Alexander Agricola (1445/1446–1506) * Flor Alpaerts (1876–1954) * Charles-François Angelet (1797–1832) B * Jacobus Barbireau (1455–1491) * Pierre Bartholomée (born 1937) * Peter Benoit (1834–1901) * Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870) * René Bernier (1905–1984) * Adolphe Biarent (1871–1916) * Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460) * André-Joseph Blavier (1713–1782) * Jan Blockx (1851–1912) * August de Boeck (1865–1937) * Philippe Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding suburbs of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde. With 262,219 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florine Lepla
Florine is a rare name used in Christian communities like the Tulu Nadu Roman Catholics. It is both a surname and a feminine French given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Hans Florine (born 1964), American rock climber * Nicolas Florine (1891–1972), engineer that built the first tandem rotor helicopter Given name: * Florine De Leymarie (born 1981), French Alpine skier *Florine of Burgundy (1083–1097), French crusader *Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944), American artist See also * Sainte-Florine, a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France * Fluorine Fluorine is a chemical element with the symbol F and atomic number 9. It is the lightest halogen and exists at standard conditions as a highly toxic, pale yellow diatomic gas. As the most electronegative reactive element, it is extremely reacti ..., a chemical element {{given name, type=both French feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Fuerison
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
