Carlo Pignatta - Jean Absil: Guitar works (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:13:06 | 315 Mb
Genre: Classical
Jean Absil (1893 – 1974) was a Belgian composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory. Born in Bonsecours in the Hainaut region of Belgium, he studied organ and harmony at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels before focusing on composition. Absil achieved early recognition by winning the Belgian Prix de Rome in 1922 and the Prix Rubens in 1934. The latter award enabled him to spend time in Paris, where he met prominent composers such as Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, and Jacques Ibert. This international exposure greatly influenced his musical development. Absil′s career thereafter combined composition with pedagogy. From 1930 he taught harmony at the Brussels Conservatory, becoming a professor of counterpoint in 1936, and he later served as professor of fugue both at the Conservatory and at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. For over forty years he also directed the Etterbeek Music Academy (renamed in his honour in 1963), mentoring generations of young Belgian musicians, and in 1955 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Belgium.