Martin-Joseph Mengal
Illustration — Martin-Joseph Mengal in 1845 Martin-Joseph Mengal (27 January 1784 - 4 July 1851) was a Belgian composer and teacher. Mengal came from a musical family and received horn and violin lessons as a child, and by the age of 13 played first horn at the Ghent opera. From 1804 Mengal moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Paris with Frédéric Duvernoy and Charles Simon Catel, but in December the same year he joined the French military service and marched in the War of the Third Coalition against Italy, Austria and Prussia under Napoleon I. Mengal's connections with composer Anton Reicha and with the diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord made it possible to stage his operatic work at the Paris Opéra-Comique.
Martin-Joseph Mengal
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- Born
- 1784 · Ghent.
- Died
- 1851 · Ghent.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- conductor · composer · horn player · musician
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Teachers
- Charles-Simon Catel · Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy
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Illustration — Martin-Joseph Mengal in 1845 Martin-Joseph Mengal (27 January 1784 - 4 July 1851) was a Belgian composer and teacher. Mengal came from a musical family and received horn and violin lessons as a child, and by the age of 13 played first horn at the Ghent opera. From 1804 Mengal moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Paris with Frédéric Duvernoy and Charles Simon Catel, but in December the same year he joined the French military service and marched in the War of the Third Coalition against Italy, Austria and Prussia under Napoleon I. Mengal's connections with composer Anton Reicha and with the diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord made it possible to stage his operatic work at the Paris Opéra-Comique.
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Martin-Joseph Mengal (1784–1851) was a Belgian composer, conductor and horn player, among other activities. The composer was born and died in Ghent. Martin-Joseph Mengal studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Genres include opera.
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In 1825 Mengal returned to Ghent, becoming conductor of the Opera Orchestra in Antwerp in 1830, and shortly afterward took the same position in The Hague. Mengal was the founding director of the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in 1835 and served as director there until his death. His students there included François-Auguste Gevaert. His operas include Les infidèles (1823, Paris), Le Vampire ou L'Homme du néant (1826, Ghent), Apothéose de Talma (1826, Ghent), and the comic opera Un jour à Vaucluse ou Le Poète ambassadeur (1830, Ghent). A few compositions from his younger brother Jean-Baptiste Mengal (1792–1878) have also survived.
Martin-Joseph Mengal is recorded with the occupation horn player. Classed in the genre opera. Recorded as conductor, composer, horn player and musician.
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1784
Martin-Joseph Mengal was born on 27 January 1784.
1851
Martin-Joseph Mengal died on 4 July 1851.
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Martin-Joseph Mengal studied at Conservatoire de Paris. He trained under Charles-Simon Catel and Frédéric Nicolas Duvernoy. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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