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As a young boy he was sent to Paris by his family to follow piano classes with Henri Herz, most sources situating these lessons in the period after the Belgian revolution of 1830, one 19th-century source mentioning 'at age eleven'. A serious illness forced him to return to his family in Belgium six months later.
"Le Plat Pays" (Translation: 'The Flat Country') is a French-language song by Belgian singer Jacques Brel about his home country. It also exists in a Dutch-language version as "Mijn vlakke land" ('My Flat Country'), also performed by him. The French lyrics are by Jacques Brel, the Dutch lyrics by Ernst van Altena.
This is an incomplete list of Flemish painters, with place and date of birth and death, sorted by patronymic, and grouped according to century of birth.It includes painters such as Rubens from (or mostly active in) the Southern Netherlands, which is approximately the area of modern Flanders and modern Wallonia.
The best-selling Belgian music artists cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales of Belgian artists. This page lists those artists who have had claims made to be among the top sellers.
This is a list of Belgian classical composers, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names.It includes composers of classical music who were born within Belgium (after the establishment of the country in 1830) or became permanent residents there.
In "Marieke" Brel sings about a Flemish girl, Marieke, whom he once loved and who lived "between the towers of Bruges and Ghent".He wants her to love him again in the "flat country of Flanders" (a reference to another song by him, "Le Plat Pays").
André de Meulemeester (1894–1973) – Flemish-Belgian painter 1917 [2] Jos de Mey (1928–2007) – Flemish-Belgian painter, primarily of impossible objects in a photo-realistic style; Albert Demuyser born in Laeken (1920–2003) William Degouve de Nuncques (born in Monthermé, 1867 – died 1935) – Symbolism
Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) Founder of French operetta and a prolific composer of pieces which achieved tremendous success with Parisian audiences for their catchy melodies and satirical bite such as La Vie parisienne and Orpheus in the Underworld. [34] At the time of his death, Offenbach was working on a more serious opera, The Tales of ...