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BIBLIOGRAPHYCeBeDeM directory A. Getteman: ‘Joseph Jongen’, ReM, iv/7–9 (1922–3), 238–45 L. Jongen: ‘Notice sur Joseph Jongen, membre de l'Académie’, Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, cxx (1954), 193–254 J. de Guchteneere: Joseph Jongen: biographie et inventaire analytique de son oeuvre (diss., U. of Leuven, 1972) C. Gyselings: Joseph Jongen, sa vie, son oeuvre pour piano (diss., U. Libre de Bruxelles, 1980) J.S. Whiteley: Joseph Jongen and his Organ Music (Stuyvesant, NY, 1997) JOHN SCOTT WHITELEY Jongen, (Marie Victor Justin) Léon(b Liège, 2 March 1884; d Brussels, 18 Nov 1969). Belgian composer and pianist, brother of Joseph Jongen. He studied at the Liège Conservatoire and was joint organist of St Jacques, Liège (1898–1908). Thereafter he toured Europe with a piano quartet and settled in Paris, becoming accompanist to the tenor Imbart de la Tour. In 1913 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome with the cantata Les fiancés de Noël. He toured South America, and after World War I he visited north Africa. In 1925 he began a period of nine years in East Asia, and became conductor of the Tonkin Opera, Hanoi (1927–9). On his return to Belgium he was appointed professor of fugue at the Brussels Conservatory, where he succeeded his brother as director (1939–49). He was elected to the Royal Academy of Belgium in 1945 and was also a member of the Royal Academy in London. In 1956 he became co-director of the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, and in 1963 his Violin Concerto was set as the test piece for the competition of this organization. Jongen’s operatic works reveal his fiery temperament; his choral writing adroitly points the irony of the texts, some drawn from La Fontaine. Travel recollections led to the Ravel-like exoticism of such orchestral works as Malaisie, and the Sept esquisses for piano show how close Jongen was to French Romanticism. However, the song cycle Provinciales reveals the more eccentric, mischievous side of his personality. WORKS(selective list)
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