Biography

Paul Constant Eugène Malengreau was born at Trélon

Trélon

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, Nord, France. He later changed his surname to “de Maleingreau”. From 1905 to 1912 he studied at the Brussels Conservatory where his principal teachers were Alfons Desmet, Paul Gilson

Paul Gilson

Paul Gilson was a Belgian musician and composer.-Biography:Gilson was born in Brussels. In 1866, his family moved to Ruisbroek in the Belgian province of Brabant. There he studied theory with the organist and choir director Auguste Cantillon, and began writing works for orchestra and choir...

 and Edgar Tinel

Edgar Tinel

Edgar Tinel was a Belgian composer and pianist.He was born in Sinaai, today part of Sint-Niklaas in East Flanders, Belgium, and died in Brussels. After studies at the Brussels Conservatory with Louis Brassin and François-Auguste Gevaert , he began a career as a virtuoso, but soon abandoned this...

. He began teaching at the Conservatory in 1913 and was professor of organ (succeeding Desmet) from 1929 until 1953. His pupils included Pierre Froidebise, Charles Koenig, Robert Kohnen, Marcel Druart and Herman Roelstraete.

In 1921 and 1922 he was the first to play Bach

Bạch

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’s complete organ works in Brussels.

Gregorian plainsong

Plainsong

Plainsong is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Catholic Church. Though the Eastern Orthodox churches and the Catholic Church did not split until long after the origin of plainchant, Byzantine chants are generally not classified as plainsong.Plainsong is monophonic, consisting of a...

 forms the basis of most of Malengreau’s compositions, and indeed part of his output is intended for the liturgy. He also wrote programme music, his organ symphonies being inspired by paintings by Rogier van der Weyden and the van Eyck

Van Eyck

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 brothers. While the chromaticism and cyclic treatment of themes reveal the influence of Franck

Franck

- People :* César Franck , Belgian composer of the Romantic era* George Franck , University of Minnesota & New York Giant* Harry A...

, certain harmonic progressions are typical of Impressionist music.

He was a member of the Libre Académie, and died in Brussels

Brussels

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in 1956.

Organ

• Op. 2 Élévation (1912, Hérelle)
• Op. 3 no. 1 Post partum Virgo inviolata permansisti (Hérelle, Fortemps)
• Op. 3 no. 2 Ego sum panis vivus (Hérelle, Fortemps)
• Op. 10 Opus sacrum: In nativitate Domini (1920, Chester)
• Op. 14 Suite (1919, Durand)
• Op. 18 nos.1 & 2 Offrande musicale (1920, Chester)
• Op. 18 no. 3 Toccata (1920, Chester)
• Op. 19 Symphonie de Noël (1920, Chester)
• Op. 20 Symphonie de la Passion (1923, Senart)
• Op. 22 Opus sacrum II: In feriis Quadragesimae (1923, Senart)
• Op. 23 Triptyque pour la Noël (1923, Salabert)
• Op. 24 Symphonie de l’Agneau mystique (1926, Leduc)
• Op. 25 Préludes à l’introit pour orgue sans pédale (1924, Senart)
• Op. 26 no. 4 Noël parisienne
• Op. 27 Élévations liturgiques (1935, Herelle-Philippo)
• Op. 30 Messe du jour de Noël (1938, Philippo)
• Op. 31 Messe de pâques (Hérelle-Philippo)
• Op. 35 Méditation pour le temps pascal: Quoniam ipsius est mare (1939, Hérelle)
• Op. 60 Préludes de carème (1952, Oxford)
• Op. 65 Suite mariale (1939, Oxford)
• Op. 71 Suite: Four paraphrases on hymns to the Virgin (1937, Oxford)
• Op. 103 Diptyque de la Toussaint (1952, Fischer)

Piano

• Op. 7 Prélude-Chorale et fugue (1920, Chester)
• Op. 9 Suite pour piano (1920, Chester)
• Op. 12 Sonatine pour piano (1917, Lauweryns)
• Op. 17 Les angelus du printemps : suite pittoresque pour piano (1920, Chester)
• Suite enfantine (1934, Senart)