Joseph Borremans (25 November 1775 in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

– 15 May 1858 in Brussels) was a

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

and conductor in the

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. In Brussels, he was

Kapellmeister (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

at the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral (until 1835?), organist of the Saint Nicholas' Church and second conductor of the Theatre of the Mint where, amongst others, the next works were performed: * ''Klapperman ou le Crieur de nuit d'Amsterdam'',

Opéra comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...

in one act performed on 31 October 1804; * ''La Femme impromptue'',

Opera buffa ''Opera buffa'' (; "comic opera", plural: ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramm ...

performed in 1808; * ''Offrande à Vlujmen'', ''scène lyrique'' performed on 31 October 1816. As an organist, he was noted for his improvisational abilities. As a religious composer, he wrote

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es,

Te Deum The "Te Deum" (, ; from its incipit, , ) is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to AD 387 authorship, but with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throughout the Latin Chur ...

’s,

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s, etc. with orchestral accompaniment. The composer

Charles Borremans Charles Borremans (5 April 1769 – 17 July 1827), was a composer of operas, and a violinist and conductor at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Belgium from 1804 to 1825. The composer Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens succeeded him as conduct ...

was his eldest brother.François - Joseph Fétis & Arthur Pougin, ''Biographie universelle des musiciens et de la musique bibliographie générale. Supplément et complément,''
Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1878.

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