Name Lucien Goethals Role Composer | Albums Lucien Goethals | |
Died December 12, 2006, Ghent, Belgium Music director Harpya, Pegasus, To Speak or Not to Speak, Atraksion, Sirene Similar People Karel Goeyvaerts, Claude Coppens, Luc Brewaeys, Henri Pousseur, Wim Henderickx | ||
Lucien goethals studie v 1964 excerpt experimental abstract noise
Lucien Goethals (26 June 1931 – 12 December 2006) was a Belgian composer.
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- Lucien goethals studie v 1964 excerpt experimental abstract noise
- A4 lucien goethals cellotape
- Life
- Aesthetics
- Compositions
- References
A4 lucien goethals cellotape
Life
Lucien Goethals was born in Ghent, but spent his formative years in Argentina, where he studied at the Dima Conservatory of Buenos Aires. When he returned to Belgium, he continued his studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent up to 1956, where he earned his first prize in organ, music history, counterpoint, and fugue. He later studied orchestration with Norbert Rosseau, and serial technique and electronic composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig and De Meester. He worked at the IPEM in Ghent ever since it was founded in 1962, and was its artistic director from 1970 to 1987 (Knockaert 2001). He died in Ghent, aged 75 (Temmerman 2006).
Aesthetics
Goethals was a stubborn proponent of "high" culture, in opposition to postmodernism thinking, which wants to dissolve the separation between "high" and "low" culture into the function of a global post-industrial culture of consumption (Leman 2000).