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  • Peter Benoit

    …and Pompeja (1895); the oratorio Lucifer (1866), considered his masterpiece; the children’s oratorio De waereld in (1878; ā€œIn the Worldā€); and the Quadrilogie religieuse (1864). In his late compositions he turned away from his previous models, composers Hector Berlioz and Giacomo Meyerbeer, and cultivated a style of studied simplicity. This…

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    …and Pompeja (1895); the oratorio Lucifer (1866), considered his masterpiece; the children’s oratorio De waereld in (1878; ā€œIn the Worldā€); and the Quadrilogie religieuse (1864). In his late compositions he turned away from his previous models, composers Hector Berlioz and Giacomo Meyerbeer, and cultivated a style of studied simplicity. This…

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