Luc Brewaeys News
Belgian musician (1959-2015)
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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-12-23 08:54:18
The composer who foretold his death in an opera
A moving remembrance of Luc Brewaeys, by Valerio Tura: I am utterly shocked to read about the passing of Luc Brewaeys. My relation with him started approximately ten years ago, when I was administrateur artistique at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Bruxelles. Together with our general director Bernard Foccroulle we wanted to stage a new opera composed by him. Because of various constraints, we needed to have an opera with a very limited number of singers, and no chorus. I knew that Luc could speak and read some Italian, and that, having studied in Italy, he loved Italian culture. Therefore I came up with the idea of asking him to write an opera based on a one-man-play by Pirandello, a piece of genius entitled “L’uomo dal fiore in bocca” (The man with a flower in his mouth). Pirandello’s play is about a man who contracted an “epitelioma”, a tumour […]
2015-12-21 01:00:00
Belgian composer Luc Brewaeys died in December 2015
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-12-18 13:50:33
Belgians mourn a modernist composer
Luc Brewaeys has died, aged 56. A pupil of Donatoni and Ferneyhough, Luc worked extensively in electronic music. He also composed eight symphonies and a successful orchestration of both books of Preludes by Claude Debussy.
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