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Grove Music Online
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[extrait de:] Henri VANHULST: 'Verheyen, Pierre', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 16 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
Verheyen, Pierre (Emmanuel)
(b Ghent, 1750; d Ghent, 11 Jan 1819). Flemish composer and singer. As a choirboy at St Baaf Cathedral, Ghent, he took his music lessons with the organist J.J. Boutmy. Later he studied composition with Ignaz Vitzthumb, a director of the Théâtre de La Monnaie, Brussels, and with F.-J. Krafft, the music director at St Baaf Cathedral, Ghent. As a singer, he was employed at churches in Bruges and Ghent and by several lyric theatres; he was also a conductor in Maastricht. His first compositions, which are church music, date from the year 1778; in 1786 he was appointed compositeur ordinaire to Prince Ferdinand Lobkowitz, the Bishop of Ghent. Having lost his voice, Verheyen obtained an administrative post under the French regime and was appointed organist at the Temple de la Raison in 1793 and later at the Ursuline Convent. He was one of the founders of the Société des Beaux-Arts in Ghent. […]"
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