Edgar Tinel

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Edgar Tinel in 1911
tomb of the Tinel family in Sinaai, by Karel Schuermans

Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (27 March 1854 28 October 1912) was a Belgian composer and pianist.

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He was born in Sinaai, today part of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Louis Brassin (piano) and François-Auguste Gevaert (composition), he began a career as a virtuoso, but soon abandoned this for composition. In 1877 his cantata Klokke Roeland won him the Belgian Prix de Rome, and in 1881 he succeeded Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens as director of the Mechelen Institute of Religious Music.

He devoted himself to a study of old church music, and his ideas gave rise to Pope Pius X's Motu proprio . Appointed inspector of music education in 1889, he moved to the Brussels Conservatory to become professor of counterpoint and fugue in 1896, and director at the end of 1908. He was made maître de chapelle to the king in 1910, having been elected to the Belgian Royal Academy in 1902.

His liturgical music is polyphonic in the Palestrina style, but this technique conflicted with Tinel's lyrical and mystical temperament, and he had much greater success in his two concert settings of the Te Deum, the oratorio and the religious dramas. These works indicate his total admiration for Bach, but the orchestration, dominated by the strings, is Romantic. Tinel's piano pieces and songs recall Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms. He published Le chant gregorien (Mechelen, 1890).

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Operas

Choral

Keyboard music

Orchestral music, songs

Tinel also wrote a treatise on plain-song.

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References

  1. "Catalogue des Œuvres d'Edgar Tinel (1854–1912)". MUSICA SACRA 32e année – Novembre – Décembre 1912 – Janvier 1913 MUSICA SACRA 32e année – Novembre – Décembre 1912 – Janvier 1913 – Numéros 4, 5 et 6. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  2. Handelsblad (Het) 9 May 1900