Frédéric Devreese. Dutch-born Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor. Mr. Devreese received his first musical training from his father, thr composer-conductor Godfried Devreese (b. 1893 – d. 1972). He studied composition with Marcel Poot and conducting with René Defossez in Brussels, …

Wim Henderickx is a Flemish classical music composer based in Antwerp, Belgium. He teaches composition at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Music in Antwerp and at the Conservatory in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and studied at IRCAM in Paris and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. Henderickx was awarded the ‘Jeugd-en Muziekprijs Vlaanderen’ (Flanders), …

Karel Goeyvaerts was a Belgian composer. After studies at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp, he studied composition in Paris with Darius Milhaud and analysis with Olivier Messiaen. He also studied ondes martenot with Maurice Martenot, who invented the instrument. In 1951, Goeyvaerts attended the famous Darmstadt New Music Summer School where he met Karlheinz Stockhausen who was five years younger.

Jean Absil was a Belgian composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatory. Absil was born in Bon-Secours. Among his many compositions are the "Ballade", op. 129, for solo piano, to be played with the left hand only, as well as "3 Pièces" to be played with the right one only; "Le Bestiare", op. 58, for chorus, and a piano concerto, op. 30 - in the sixties and seventies he would compose two more works in this genre; in fact, …

André Laporte is a Belgian composer.

Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and there he spent the next sixteen years. The admission board was not disappointed. Jongen won a First Prize for Fugue in 1891, an honors diploma in piano the next year, and another for organ in 1896.

Henri Pousseur (born 23 June 1929, Malmedy) is a Belgian composer.

Claude Coppens (b. December 23, 1936, Schaarbeek, near Brussels) is a Belgian pianist and composer. Coppens studied at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels with Marcel Maas and in Paris with Marguerite Long. He held amicable relations with several well known twentieth century composers including John Cage and Frank Zappa. As an interpreter he is known for his faithfulness to the original intentions of the composer.

Marcel Poot was a Belgian composer, professor, and musician. His father, Jan Poot, was Director of the Vlaamse Schouwburg (Flemish Theater) in Brussels. At the Brussels Conservatory, Poot studied organ with Gerard Nauwelaarts, and composition and instrumentation with Arthur De Greef, José Sevenans, Martin Lunssens, Lodewijk Mortelmans, and Paul Gilson.

Flor Peeters (July 4, 1903 - July 4, 1986) was a Belgian composer, organist and teacher. Born and raised in Tielen, he was the youngest child in a family of eleven. At sixteen, Peeters began his studies at the Lemmens Institute in Mechelen, where he studied with Lodewijk Mortelmans, Jules van Nuffel and Oscar Depuydt. Depuydt was well known for his collaboration with the Desmet brothers on the first set of Gregorian accompaniments produced by the Lemmens Institute.

Jef "Joseph" Maes was a Belgian composer. Encouraged by his friend, André Cluytens, he completed his study at the Flämi conservatory in Antwerp. He studied viola with Napoleon Distelmans; chamber music with Albert van de Vijver; and counterpoint and fuge with Karel Candael. When he was 23 years old, he composed his first work, which was a romantic meditation for violin and piano.

Julianus Marie August de Boeck was a Belgian composer, organist and music pedagogue. From 1880 he studied organ at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels under Alphonse Mailly from whom he became an assistant until 1902. In 1889 he met the young Paul Gilson who became his close friend, and, despite their same age, his teacher for orchestration and his motivator for composition. He became an organist at various churches in Belgian villages (1892-1894 in Merchtem, …

Guillaume Lekeu (January 20 1870 - January 21 1894) was a Belgian (Wallon) composer of classical music.

André Souris was a Belgian composer and writer associated with the Surrealist movement. He was born in Marchienne-au-Pont, Belgium, and studied at the Conservatorium in Brussels. He won the Rubens prize in 1927. In 1947 he composed "Polyphonie", an Avant-Garde/Surrealist work. He lived in Italy, France, and Austria, and died in Paris.

Yolande Uyttenhove 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 Lutèce. Her music owed much to that of the Romantics, especially Gabriel Fauré, …

Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, was a Belgian violin player and teacher. In 1854, seven-year old Marsick was admitted to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Liège, to study violin with Désiré Heynberg. Graduating with the gold medal in 1864, he continued his studies in Brussels with Hubert Léonard and became the pupil of Lambert Massert at the Paris Conservatory in 1868.

Alain Van Kerckhoven (born October 10 1964) is a Belgian music publisher and author. His music publishing house is devoted to contemporary classical music.