# Edgar Tinel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edgar_Tinel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edgar_Tinel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Tinel > Source revision: 1350802155 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Belgian composer and pianist (1854–1912)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} thumb|Edgar Tinel in 1911 thumb|tomb of the Tinel family in Sinaai, by Karel Schuermans '''Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel''' (27 March 1854{{spaced ndash}}28 October 1912) was a [Belgian](/source/Belgium) composer and pianist. He was born in Sinaai, today part of [Sint-Niklaas](/source/Sint-Niklaas) in [East Flanders](/source/East_Flanders), Belgium, and died in [Brussels](/source/Brussels). After studies at the [Brussels Conservatory](/source/Brussels_Conservatory) with [Louis Brassin](/source/Louis_Brassin) (piano) and [François-Auguste Gevaert](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois-Auguste_Gevaert) (composition), he began a career as a virtuoso, but soon abandoned this for composition. In 1877 his cantata ''[Klokke Roeland](/source/Klokke_Roeland)'' won him the [Belgian Prix de Rome](/source/Prix_de_Rome_(Belgium)), and in 1881 he succeeded [Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens](/source/Jacques-Nicolas_Lemmens) as director of the [Mechelen Institute of Religious Music](/source/Lemmensinstituut). He devoted himself to a study of old church music, and his ideas gave rise to [Pope Pius X](/source/Pope_Pius_X)'s ''[Motu proprio](/source/Motu_proprio)''. Appointed inspector of music education in 1889, he moved to the Brussels Conservatory to become professor of counterpoint and fugue in 1896, and director at the end of 1908. He was made maître de chapelle to the king in 1910, having been elected to the [Belgian Royal Academy](/source/The_Royal_Academies_for_Science_and_the_Arts_of_Belgium) in 1902. His liturgical music is polyphonic in the [Palestrina](/source/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina) style, but this technique conflicted with Tinel's lyrical and mystical temperament, and he had much greater success in his two concert settings of the [Te Deum](/source/Te_Deum), the oratorio and the religious dramas. These works indicate his total admiration for [Bach](/source/Johann_Sebastian_Bach), but the orchestration, dominated by the strings, is Romantic. Tinel's piano pieces and songs recall [Schumann](/source/Robert_Schumann), [Mendelssohn](/source/Felix_Mendelssohn) and [Brahms](/source/Johannes_Brahms). He published ''[Le chant gregorien](/source/Le_chant_gregorien)'' (Mechelen, 1890). == Work == === Operas === *Godelieve, Op. 43 *Katharina, Op. 44 === Choral === *Klokke Roeland, Op. 17, cantata *Kollebloemen, Op. 20, cantata, 1879, rev. 1889–90 *Vlaamsche stemme, Op. 25, 4 male vv *Te Deum, Op. 26, 4vv org, 1883 *Psalm vi, Op. 27, 4 male vv 1891 *4 Adventsliederen, Op. 35, SATB *Franciscus, Op. 36, oratorio, 1890, libretto by [Lodewijk de Koninck](/source/Lodewijk_de_Koninck) *Aurora, Op. 37, 4 male vv (1885) *Psalm xxix, Op. 39, 4 male vv *Missa in honorem BMV de Lourdes, Op. 41, 5 vv 1892 *Cantique nuptial, Op. 45, S/T, org, pf/harp *Te Deum, Op. 46, 6vv, org, orch, 1905 *Psalm cl, Op. 47, 4 male vv, 1907 === Keyboard music === *Four Nocturnes (voice and piano), Op.1 *Three Fantasy Pieces, Op. 2 *Scherzo in C minor, Op. 3 *Two Pieces, Op.7 *Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 9 *''Au Printemps'', Five Fantasy Pieces, Op. 14 *Piano Sonata in G minor, Op. 15 *Organ Sonata in G minor, Op. 29 *Bunte Blätter, six pieces for piano, Op. 32{{cite web|title=Catalogue des Œuvres d'Edgar Tinel (1854–1912)|url=http://www.edgar-tinel.be/Doc/Catalogue-des-Opus.htm|publisher=MUSICA SACRA 32e année – Novembre – Décembre 1912 – Janvier 1913 MUSICA SACRA 32e année – Novembre – Décembre 1912 – Janvier 1913 – Numéros 4, 5 et 6|access-date=6 October 2015}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} === Orchestral music, songs === * Principal publishers: Breitkopf & Härtel, Schott (Brussels) *''Kollebloemen'' (lyrical poem) *''Drie ridders'' ('Three knights', ballad) * [Incidental music](/source/Incidental_music) to [Pierre Corneille](/source/Pierre_Corneille)'s ''[Polyeucte](/source/Polyeucte)'' (1878–1881) Tinel also wrote a treatise on plain-song. == Honours == * 1900: Officer in the [Order of Leopold](/source/Order_of_Leopold_(Belgium)).Handelsblad (Het) 9 May 1900 == See also == * [Joseph Ryelandt](/source/Joseph_Ryelandt) == References == {{Reflist}} * E. Closson: Sainte Godelieve de E. Tinel (Leipzig, 1879) * A. van der Elst: Edgar Tinel (Ghent, 1901) * P. Tinel: Edgar Tinel: Le recit de sa vie et I'eregese de son oeuvre de 1854 a 1886 (Brussels, 1923) * Le 'Franciscus' d'Edgar Tinel (Brussels, 1926) * Edgar Tinel (Brussels, 1946) J. Ryelandt: 'Notice sur Edgar Tinel', Annuaire de I'Academie royale de Belgique, cxvi (1950), 207 * C. van den Borren: Geschiedenis van de muziek in de Nederlanden, ii (Antwerp, 1951), 239ff, 287ff, 335f, 367f * F. van der Mueren: 'Edgar Tinel', Musica sacra, 1xiii (1962), 113 * J. Vyverman: 'Tinel, Edgar', BNB * Hugo Riemann, Musik-Lexikon, 9th ed., Max Hellers Verlag, Berlin, 1919. * S.A.M Bottenheim, Prisma Encyclopedie der Muziek, [Het Spectrum](/source/Het_Spectrum), Utrecht, 1957. * Sylvia van Ameringen, Elseviers Encyclopedie van de muziek, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1962. * Percy A. Scholes, John Owen Ward, The Oxford Companion to Music, 10th ed., Oxford University * Press, London, 1974. * New Groves Dictionary (1981), Volume 18 ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050130094514/http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=tinel Edgar (Pierre Joseph) Tinel | Classical Composers Database] at www.classical-composers.org * {{IMSLP|id=Tinel, Edgar}} * {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.kcb.be/ Site of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels – Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel] (Flemish section) * {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.edgartinel.be/ Site of museum of Edgar Tinel at Sinaai-Waas, Belgium] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tinel, Edgar}} Category:1854 births Category:1912 deaths Category:19th-century Belgian classical composers Category:19th-century classical pianists Category:20th-century Belgian classical composers Category:20th-century Belgian classical pianists Category:Belgian opera composers Category:Belgian Roman Catholics Category:Classical composers of church music Category:Flemish composers Category:Belgian male opera composers Category:Prix de Rome (Belgium) winners Category:People from Sint-Niklaas Category:Belgian male classical pianists Category:20th-century Belgian male musicians Category:19th-century Belgian male musicians Category:Oratorio composers Category:19th-century male pianists Category:20th-century male pianists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edgar Tinel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Tinel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Tinel?action=history)). 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