Johannes van Bree - Allegro for 4 String Quartets (1845)

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Johannes Bernardus van Bree (Amsterdam, 29 January 1801 -- Amsterdam, 14 February 1857) was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman.

Allegro for 4 String Quartets (1845)

Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden

From 1829 to the year of his death he directed the Felix Meritis Society. He was also the director of the Music School of the Society of the Promotion of Music, Amsterdam.

As a conductor he gave the Dutch premieres of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique (in 1855) and Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1856).

Editor: Theo Wyatt
Kitty Wyatt

Publisher Info.:
London: Merton Music, No.1602, 2002.

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