Liege–the City of Violinists
USICALLY speaking, Belgium is a land of bells, violinists, glorious choirs of all kinds and some outstanding composers. Belgium is the home of the carillon and the birthplace of the saxophone. Adolphe Saxe, a Belgian, invented the instrument to which he gave his name.in Brussels, about a century ago. Eighteenth century opera owes Mehul and Gretry to Belgium, also a more modern composer, William Lekue, whose death from typhoid in 1894 on the day atter his twenty-fourth birthday, robbed the world of a great composer. Two of Belgium’s greatest musicians, Gretry, the 18th century opera composer, and Cesar Franck, the saintly organist of St. Clothilde’s in Paris, both were born in Liege. This town is the centre not only of industrial, but of musical activity, and a pronounced specialisation of taste in the direction of violin playing is noticeable among the people. As a result, the Liege district has become a centre of violinists who spread themselves all over the _world, making music for high and low. — ("Music of Our Allies — Belgium," 2YA, November 30.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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