Jacques Gregoir
1817 — 1876
Joseph (Jacques) Grégoir (Gregoir) was a Belgian pianist and composer.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Jacques Gregoir.
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Jacques Gregoir, born in Antwerp in 1817, was a notable pianist and composer, having studied under Henri Herz in Paris and Chr. Rummel at Biberich, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). His talent was evident early, as he made his debut as a pianist at the age of eight, performing Dussek’s B minor Concerto, as Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1906) records. Though health issues forced his return from Paris, he later achieved great success as a performer. Gregoir settled in Brussels in 1848 as a teacher and composer, producing an opera, Le Gondolier de Venise (Antwerp, 1847), a cantata, Faust, and a Lauda Sion. He also composed a piano concerto (Op. 100), numerous piano pieces and etudes, and collaborated on duos and fantasias for violin or cello and piano with prominent musicians like Leonard, Servais, and Vieuxtemps, a detail noted in A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1905).