Johannes Bernardus van Bree

Biography

Johannes Bernardus van Bree (29 January 1801 – 14 February 1857) was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor.

Biography

Van Bree was born and died in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman.
From 1829 to the year of his death he directed the Felix Meritis Society. He was also the director of the Music School of the Society of the Promotion of Music, Amsterdam.
As a conductor he gave the Dutch premieres of Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique (in 1855) and Richard Wagner's Faust Overture (1856).

Incomplete list of works

Operas
Sappho
Nimm dich in Acht
Le Bandit (overture recorded on NM Classics)
Choral and Vocal Works
Mass for Soloists, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra in A flat (ca. 1830)
Mass for Two-Part Chorus and Organ in F
Three Masses "tribus vocibus humanis, comitante organo" for Three-Part Male Chorus and Organ (1837)
Cantata "St. Cecilia's Day" (in D)
Psalm 84 (1840s?)
Orchestral and Chamber works
Overture in B minor
Overture in E flat major (1839)
Scene, for Horn and Orchestra (1841)
Variations for violin and piano (1837)
Violin Concerto in D minor
Fantasy in form of a symphony (1845)
Allegro for Four String Quartets in D minor (about 1845)
Scherzi, for the piano (about 1855?)
String Quartets - no. 1 in A minor (about 1834), no. 2 in E flat (about 1840, dedicated to Bernhard Molique), no. 3 in D minor (ca. 1848).