Jef van Hoof
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Jef Van Hoof (8 May 1886 – 24 April 1959) was a Belgian composer and conductor with a Flemish ethnic background.[1] After World War I, he was sentenced to eight months in prison for collaborating with the German occupiers.[citation needed]
Born in Antwerp, Van Hoof was a pupil of Paul Gilson and was heavily influenced by the works of Peter Benoit. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, of which he was the director from 1942 to 1944. In 1933 he founded the Flemish National Song Festival (Vlaams Nationaal Zangfeest) where he worked as a conductor for many years. He also conducted concerts associated with the Flemish Movement. He died in Antwerp in 1959 at the age of 72.
He composed chamber music, symphonic works, art songs, works for solo piano, carillon, organ, as well as sacred music. He is particularly known for writing the Flemish patriotic song "Groeninge" to a text by Guido Gezelle.
References
[edit]- Biography by Luc Leytens
External links
[edit]- Media related to Jef Van Hoof at Wikimedia Commons
- 1886 births
- 1959 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century conductors (music)
- 20th-century Belgian male musicians
- Belgian composers
- Belgian conductors (music)
- Composers for carillon
- Flemish composers
- Male classical composers
- Male conductors (music)
- Musicians from Antwerp
- Flemish activists
- Belgian collaborators with Imperial Germany
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