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Eddy Vanoosthuyse

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Hansen: Collection of Clarinet ConcertosCharles Louis (Karel Roedewijk) Hansen was a Belgian composer. Due to his fathers work as an opera conductor, he spent his boyhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and returned to Belgium in 1825 to become a cellist at the Thtre de la Monnaie. In 1828, he became a professor of harmony and composition at the newly established Royal Conservatory of Brussels, but was accused of supporting the House of Orange and fled to Paris, finally returning to Belgium in 1838. He subsequently contributed to the countrys musical culture by staging the Belgian premieres of Beethovens Symphony No. 9 and Wagners *Lohengrin*, among other works.The five pieces included on this album were composed between 1836 and 1843 for close friends who were musicians. All of them were previously unpublished; Vanosthaze and Vermuulen discovered them while researching autograph scores hel