Emile Mathieu (Composer)
Born: 18th October 1844, Lille, Belgium
Died: 20th August 1932, Ghent, Belgium
Nationality: Belgian
Émile Louis Victor Mathieu was a Belgian music teacher and composer of classical music.
Mathieu was born into a musical family: his father was the director of a theatre in Antwerp and a singer, while is mother taught singing at the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Leuven. He studied at the Conservatory of Brussels and later became a teacher of piano and harmony at the conservatory of Leuven. In 1867 Mathieu won a second prize in the Prix de Rome contest with his cantata Torquato Tasso’s dood. He won first place in the same contest in 1871 and again in 1873. Between 1873 and 1875 he lived in Paris, where he conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre du Châtelet.
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