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De Mol, Pierre

° Brussel, 7/11/1825 — † Aalst, 2/07/1899

Annelies Focquaert (translation: Jo Sneppe)

Pierre De Mol was the brother of Jean-Remi De Mol and the uncle of François and Willem De Mol. He studied at the Brussels Conservatory, where he earned first prizes for harmony (1847) and counterpoint (1853). In 1853 he obtained the second prize in the Prix de Rome competition with his cantata Les Premiers Martyrs (The First Martyrs), which he later arranged to the oratorio Les Chrétiens martyrs (The Christian Martyrs). In 1855 he won the Grand Premier Prix de Rome with the cantata Le Dernier Jour d'Herculaneum (The Last Day of Herculaneum), while Peter Benoit took an honourable mention. He travelled to Germany, France and Italy and then settled down in Besançon, where he both became first violinist in the theatre and teacher at the school of music. Upon his return to Belgium he succeeded Benoît-Constant Fauconnier as bandmaster of the princes of Chimay. Subsequently he was appointed as director of the school of music at Aalst, where he passed away in 1899.

Bibliografie

Anderen over deze componist

  • De Mol, J.: La vie et les oeuvres de Willem De Mol, Paris et Bruxelles, 1923, p. 2-3.
  • Gregoir, E.: De Mol (Pierre), in: Galerie biographique des artistes-musiciens belges du XVIIIme et du XIXme siècle, Brussel, 1862, p. 47-48.
  • Gregoir, E.: De Mol (Pierre), in: L’art musical en Belgique sous les règnes de Léopold Ier et de Léopold II, Brussel, 1879, p. 208.
  • Gregoir, E.: De Mol (Pierre), in: Les artistes-musiciens belges au XVIIIme et au XIXme siècle, Brussel, 1885, p. 123-124; 1890, p. 62-63.
  • Pougin, A.: De Mol (Pierre), in: Biographie universelle des musiciens par F.-J. Fétis, supplément et complément publiés sous la direction de M. Arthur Pougin, Parijs, 1878, p. 257.
  • Thys, A.: Pierre Demol, in: Historique des sociétés chorales de Belgique, Gent, 1855, p. 194.

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