Charles Borremans Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Warrack . John . West . Ewan . The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera . 1996 . Oxford University Press . 9780192800282 . 40 .
2. https://archive.org/stream/biographieuniver187801ft/biographieuniver187801ft_djvu.txt Borremans (Joseph), compositeur, organiste et chef dorchestre
3. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-04-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090106025158/http://www.arenbergcenter.com/pdf/InventaireRBM.pdf . 6 January 2009 . 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