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Edgar (Pierre Joseph) Tinel (27 March 1854 - 28 October 1912) was a Belgian composer and pianist.

He was born in Sinaai-Waas, East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Brassin (piano) and Gevaert (composition), he began a career as a virtuoso, but soon abandoned this for composition. In 1877 his cantata Klokke Roeland won him the Belgian Prix de Rome, and in 1881 he succeeded Lemmens as director of the Malines Institute of Religious Music.

He devoted himself to a study of old church music, and his ideas gave rise to Pius X's 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 maitre de chapelle to the king in 1910, having been elected to the Belgian Royal Academy in 1902.

His liturgical music is polyphonic in the 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, the oratorio and the religious dramas. These works indicate his total admiration for Bach, but the orchestration, dominated by the strings, is Romantic. Tinel's piano pieces and songs recall Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms. He published Le chant gregorien (Mechelen, 1890).

Work

Operas

Godelieve, op. 43
Katharina, op. 44

Choral

Klokke Roeland, op. 1 7, 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
Franciscus, op. 36, oratorio, 1890
Aurora, op. 37, 4 male vv (1885)
Psalm xxix, op. 39, 4 male vv
Missa in honorem BMV de Lourdes, op. 41, 5 vv 1905
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

Piano Sonata, f, op. 9
Organ Sonata, g, op. 29
Bunte Blätter, op. 32, for piano

Orchestral music, songs

Principal publishers: Breitkopf & Härtel, Schott (Brussels).
Kollebloemen (lyrical poem)
Drie ridders ('Three knights', ballad)
Polyeucte

Tinel also wrote a treatise on plain-song.

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