Charles Borremans

Charles Borremans (5 April 1769 – 17 July 1827), was a composer of operas,[1] and a violinist and conductor at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in what was then France and later the United Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1804 to 1825. The composer Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens succeeded him as conductor of this opera house.

Borremans was born and died in Brussels. The Borremans family was related to the Artot family: his sister was married to Maurice Artot, father of the famous violinist Joseph-Alexander Artot.[2]

A Quatuor for the pianoforte harpsichord or with accompaniment of bass and two violone in F, of which a part is missing, is mentioned as number 476 in the inventory of the archives of the House of Arenberg at Edingen.[3]

  1. ^ Warrack, John; West, Ewan (1996). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780192800282.
  2. ^ Borremans (Joseph), compositeur, organiste et chef dorchestre (in French) François-Joseph Fétis & Arthur Pougin, Biographie Universelle des Musiciens et de la musique bibliographie générale. Supplément et complément, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1878
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Marie Conraz, Inventaire complet des archives musicales du Fonds pour le secteur privé de la famille d'Arenberg à Enghien, online complete inventory of the personal music collection of the House of Arenberg in their archives in Edingen, p. 10