Peter Léopold Benoît

(1834-1901)

Peter Léopold (Léonard) Benoît, who wrote music for orchestra, chamber and vocal music, was born in Harlebeke on the 17th August 1834, the same year of the composers Angeloni, Becker, Berger, Bial, Blodek, Colyns, Hernández Sales, Legouix, Lôbo, Mertens, Ponchielli, Pougin, Robinson. Died in Antwerpen on the 8th March 1901

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"Het dorp in't gebergte" was performed in Bruxelles on the 14th of December 1856

"Le Roi des Aulnes" was performed on the 2nd of December 1859 in Bruxelles

"Le Roi des Aulnes" (rev) was performed in 1861

"Isa" was performed on the 24th of February 1867 in Bruxelles

"Charlotte Corday" has been represented in 1876

"De pacificatie van Gent" has been represented in 1876

"Karel van Karel van Gelderland" was performed in 1892

"Het meilief" has been represented in 1893

"Pompeja" has been represented in 1895

"The Blind Girl" (1854), oil on canvas, 83 x 62 cm, of the painter John Millais, contemporary of Benoît (Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery)

Peter Léopold Benoît

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