Biography

Guillaume Lekeu was born on January 20, 1870 in Verviers, Belgium. He was a composer, known for He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002), Lost and Beautiful (2015) and Slack Bay (2016). He died on January 21, 1894 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Lekeu's string quartets were inspired by Beethoven, and exposure to Wagner's operas at Bayreuth influenced his approaches to melody. He described this as "des mélodies de telle longueur qu'un seul exposé suffisait à parfaire ... un morceau de musique"("melodies of such length that a single presentation was sufficient to complete ... a piece of music").

Lekeu composed about 50 works and left a number of unfinished compositions at the time of his death.

Guillaume Lekeu was a Belgian composer. He originally studied piano and music theory under Alphonse Voss, the director of the brass band at the local conservatory of Verviers.

From 1885 onwards, he regularly composed new music, especially chamber music, and studied harmony and violin from 1887 under Octave Grisard.

He continued to pursue his music studies independently while at school, composing his first piece at the age of 15.