Edgar Tinel

In 1877 his cantata Klokke Roeland won him the Belgian Prix de Rome, and in 1881 he succeeded Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens as director of the Mechelen Institute of Religious Music. He devoted himself to a study of old church music, and his ideas gave rise to Pope Pius X's Motu proprio. Appointed inspector of music education in 1889, he moved to the Brussels Conservatory to become professor of counterpoint and fugue in 1896, and director at the end of 1908. He was made maître de chapelle to the king in 1910, having been elected to the Belgian Royal Academy in 1902. His liturgical music is polyphonic in the Palestrina style, but this technique conflicted with Tinel's lyrical and mystical temperament, and he had much greater success in his two concert settings of the Te Deum, the oratorio and the religious dramas. These works indicate his total admiration for Bach, but the orchestration, dominated by the strings, is Romantic. Tinel's piano pieces and songs recall Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms. He published Le chant gregorien (Mechelen, 1890).

Edgar Tinel studied at Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Training under Louis Brassin, Alphonse Mailly and François-Auguste Gevaert is recorded. Emile Dethier is recorded as having studied under Edgar Tinel. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Places of work recorded in the authority are Mechelen and Brussels. Employment is recorded with Royal Conservatory of Brussels and Lemmensinstituut. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome.

• Godelieve, Op. 43 • Katharina, Op. 44

• Klokke Roeland, Op. 17, cantata • Kollebloemen, Op. 20, cantata, 1879, rev. 1889–90 • Vlaamsche stemme, Op. 25, 4 male vv • Te Deum, Op. 26, 4vv org, 1883 • Psalm vi, Op. 27, 4 male vv 1891 • 4 Adventsliederen, Op. 35, SATB • Franciscus, Op. 36, oratorio, 1890, libretto by Lodewijk de Koninck • Aurora, Op. 37, 4 male vv (1885) • Psalm xxix, Op. 39, 4 male vv • Missa in honorem BMV de Lourdes, Op. 41, 5 vv 1892 • Cantique nuptial, Op. 45, S/T, org, pf/harp • Te Deum, Op. 46, 6vv, org, orch, 1905 • Psalm cl, Op. 47, 4 male vv, 1907

• Four Nocturnes (voice and piano), Op.1 • Three Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 • Scherzo in C minor, Op. 3 • Two Pieces, Op.7 • Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 9 • Au Printemps, Five Fantasy Pieces, Op. 14 • Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 15 • Organ Sonata in G minor, Op. 29 • Bunte Blätter, six pieces for piano, Op. 32

• Principal publishers: Breitkopf & Härtel, Schott (Brussels) • Kollebloemen (lyrical poem) • Drie ridders ('Three knights', ballad) • Incidental music to Pierre Corneille's Polyeucte (1878–1881) Tinel also wrote a treatise on plain-song.