Yolande Uyttenhove, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian composer and pianist
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Place of Birth: Leuze-en-Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
About Yolande Uyttenhove
- Yolande Uyttenhove (25 July 1925 – 2 February 2000) was a Belgian composer and pianist. A native of Leuze, Uyttenhove studied music at the Brussels Conservatory, and gained in addition a licentiate diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London.
- She received numerous international awards for piano and composition, and placed in competitions in Barcelona, Viotti, and Paris (Concours international de composition Lutèce).
- Her music owed much to that of the Romantics, especially Gabriel Fauré, and borrowed from medieval traditions as well; it was enhanced through modern harmonic structures.
- Her own name for this style of composition was "intemporel". Yolande Uyttenhove composed more than two hundred works.
- She graduated from the Vercelli (Italy) International Contest for Composition.
- Her sonata for violin and piano (op.
- 95) was awarded the golden medal from the Lutèce International Contest for Composition in Paris. She was administratrix of the Union of Belgian Composers.
- She was honored with the Martin Lunssens’ prizes, the Sabam's honorific diploma and the bronze medal from the Arts, Sciences and Letters of France. She founded the Braine-l’Alleud's school of music in 1972 and was the Headmistress of that school until 1990.
- Yolande Uyttenhove won the Fuga Trophy in 1987 for her action in favor of Belgian music.
- From 1990 to 2000, she lectured in Europe and in the United States emphasizing the importance of women composers through the ages.
- She wrote a book "Marie-Antoinette, Reine et musicienne".
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