Martin-Joseph Mengal (1784-1851)
- Sixième duo pour cor et piano
Performers: Jeroen Billiet (horn); Jan Huylebroeck (piano)
Further info: The Fall Now Blows Its Horn
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Flemish composer and horn player. He came from a musical family and
received horn and violin lessons from his father. By the age of 13 he
played first horn at the Ghent opera and in 1804 he entered the Paris
Conservatoire where he studied with Frédéric Duvernoy and Charles Simon
Catel. After playing the horn in the orchestra at the Odéon he became
principal horn at the Opéra-Comique. In 1825 he was appointed director
of the theatre in Ghent but soon resigned and after the 1830 Revolution
became a conductor in Antwerp and The Hague. He was the founding
director of the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 1835 and served as
director there until his death. As a composer, he wrote at least six
operas (1818-1830), a Requiem, several concertos and symphonies
concertantes, and chamber music and songs. His brother Jean-Baptiste
Mengal (1792-1878) was also a horn player and one of the founders of the
Paris Société des Concerts du Conservatoire.
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