Bobbejaan Schoepen was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music. Schoepen was a versatile entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park Bobbejaanland. His musical career flourished from 1948 until the first half of the 1970s. He sold more than five million copies from his repertoire of 482 songs, which extended from Twang, cabaret, instrumental film music, chansons, country, to folk and vocal music. Born in Boom, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, he worked his way up from a working-class environment to become one of the 200 richest people in Belgium.
Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts, better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer.
Jozef "Jef" Nys was a Belgian comic book creator. He was best known for his comic strip Jommeke.
Jef "Joseph" Maes was a Belgian composer and violist.
Wim Henderickx[wɪm ˈɦɛndərɪks] is a Belgian composer of Contemporary classical music based in Antwerp.
Flor Alpaerts was a Belgian conductor, pedagogue and composer. He graduated from the Vlaamse Muziekschool in 1901.
Frank Valentine Van der Stucken was a Belgian-American composer, conductor, and founding conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1895.
Daniel Sternefeld was a Belgian composer and conductor.
Jozef De Beenhouwer is a Belgian pianist, music teacher and musicologist.
Lodewijk Mortelmans was a Belgian composer and conductor of Flemish ancestry. Sometimes called de Vlaamse Brahms, Mortelmans composed in a number of forms, including piano music and orchestral works, but he was most celebrated in his day for his art songs. Beginning in 1899, he often set the poetry of the priest Guido Gezelle. His opera De Kinderen der Zee was first produced in 1920 at the Vlaamse Opera.
Ernest Jozef Leo van der Eyken was a Belgian composer, conductor and violist.
August Louis Baeyens was a Belgian violist and composer.
Van Hoof is a Dutch toponymic surname. Hoof may refer to any number of places with the -hof, -hoof, or -hove endings, including the town Hove in Antwerp province, near which the surname is particularly common. It could also be derived from names with a particle, like Van 't Hof. Variants include Van Hooff and Vanhoof. Notable people with the surname include:
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp is a Belgian conservatory of music, dance and drama in Antwerp, Belgium. It was founded in 1898 as the Royal Flemish Conservatoire by Peter Benoit.
Victor (Vic) Nees was a Belgian (Flemish) composer, choral conductor, musicologist, and music educator.
Arthur Meulemans was a Flemish composer, conductor, and music teacher.
Phaedra is a CD label whose aim it is "to publish works written between 1830 and the present by Flemish composers, and to promote them world-wide". The label used to be a subdivision of "Klassieke Concerten vzw" and was therefore not a commercial undertaking: as it was a subdivision of a "vzw", an association without lucrative purpose, Belgian law forbade it to make a profit.
The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra is the symphony orchestra of Flanders (Belgium), based in the Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp. The orchestra is led by chief conductor Elim Chan and honorary conductor Philippe Herreweghe. The organisation, which is one of the seven art institutions of the Flemish Community, is one of the most important cultural representatives in the region.
Ria Bollen is a Flemish contralto, who had an international career as a concert singer between 1965 and 1992. Her broad repertoire included Bach's Passions, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, especially works by Gustav Mahler and works of the 20th century. She was the soloist in the world premiere of Frank Martin's Requiem. She sang many art songs, including by Belgian composers.
