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BENOIT, PETER LEONARD LEOPOLD (18341901) , Flemish composer, was born on the 17th of August 1834 at Harlebeke in Flanders
village
Benoit entered the Brussels Conservatoire, where he remained till 1855, studying chiefly under F. J. Fetis, During this period he composed music to many melodramas, and to an opera Le Village
Benoit produced at Brussels on his return from Germany. In 1861 he visited Paris for the production of his opera Le Roi des Aulnes (" Erlkonig
home , he astonished a section of the musical world by the production at Antwerp of a sacred tetralogy, consisting of his Cantate de Noel, the above-mentioned Mass, a Te Deum and a Requiem, in which were embodied to a large extent his theories of Flemish music. It was in consequence of his passion for the founding
separate
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